PSY 3136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Language Transfer, Mental Representation, Grapheme
6 Dec 2016
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Child language and infant bilingualism have so far received only marginal consideration from most linguistic scholars. Still true today. (first two real peer reviewed were 1970s, 1990s= less than 10, then huge increase 2005), number of articles has been increasing exponentially now. Age (have to devide by sensitive period, two very different groups of people) Fla, consecutive, successive; primary (within home) vs. secondary (in school) Where is the cutoff? (he says birth, always work with bfla) 1 month, 4 years, 7 years (cutoff for sensitive period), 13 years? (cannot all be put in same study, they will all be different) (bilingual who learned in school is very different from kids who learn from home) De houwer (1995) argues that bfla only if within 1 month. Proficiency (degree to which you are bilingual) Competence versus performance (does your production need to be high or is it just understand?) Language (dialect) (linguists tend to think about it more than psychologists.
