PSY 3136 Lecture 14: Bilingual 1st and 2nd language acquisition
11 Dec 2016
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Infants of 9 months prefer legal words (monolinguals) Tested infants on catalan stimuli: legal versus illegal: catalan m and catalan-dom b succeeded, spanish m failed, spanish-dom b fell in the middle between failing and succeeding. Question they ask was what was the native language of the mother= mother is primary input. Bilingual situation potentially more challenging: phonetic refinement; issus in the middle at 17 months for bilinguals. Mixed: need to activate and use one representation, no cues to language type in switch task: are not asked or told to look at it. 17-month-old french-english bilinguals outperformed monolinguals when words were pronounced in both manners or by a bilingual speaker: bilingual-like presentation (increased/familiar variability can help bilinguals and hurt monolinguals), vice versa as well. Can use non-native phonemic info for longer period. Bilingual 18-24 month-old catalan-spanish bilinguals did not notice a. Catalan mispronunciation, catalan babies did: especially for cognate words. French-english bilingual 4-year-olds appear to have greater difficulty with an.
