PSY 3136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Phonological Awareness, Code-Switching, Heritage Language

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3136
• Professor: Christopher Fennell

Document Summary

Lecture 22: bilingual first and second language acquisition. Historically an understudied topic in the eld of linguistics and language acquisition. The rst study on bilingual development was four baby biography books published by leopold in 1948. 1970s began the study of early language development. 1980s there was 10 articles on bilingualism. Between 2000 and 2005 articles tripled the amount that were published in the 90s. More done in the last 10 years then in any other time in history combined. Bilingual first language acquisition (bfla): where you learn two languages simultaneously, there is controversy as to who is considered bfla, the prof says that the second language should be introduced before 6 months. Some people argue for a 1 month cut off, some say up to thirteen years (but not many) Secondary language acquisition: learned one at home and one later on at school. Bilingual second language acquisition/second language acquisition (bsla/sla): consecutive, successive, secondary.