PSY274H5 Lecture 7: Lecture 7
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Terminology: l1 = first/native language ; l2 = second/nonnative language. Representation fo linguistic knowledge in the mind. Speech sounds (phonological system: inventory + rules of combination. Morphological and syntactic system (rules for combining morphemes and words in sequences) Major themes in psychological approaches: the mental representation of words/concepts. Recall: word = pairing of perceptual pattern and concept. Q1: what do these pairings look like in the mind? i. e. the question of bilingualism and the mental lexicon. Four perspectives on the storage of word meaning in bilinguals the first two perspectives each describe a way of framing two sides of a debate, and do not advance a specific hypothesis. Assumes that both the interdependence and independence hypothesis are correct, but relate to different individuals: compound bilingualism: (ex. Two languages learned simultaneously in same context): memory format resembles the interdependence view: coordinate bilingualism: (ex.
