Psychology 2134A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Metalinguistic Awareness, Heritage Language, Mutual Intelligibility

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2134A/B
• Professor: Sarah Smits- Bandstra

Document Summary

Monolingual: able to speak only one language. Bilingual: able to speak two or more languages. Balanced bilingual: a person who grows up speaking two languages and can communicate well in either language. When a child learns one language at home and one at school the school language is likely to become dominant. When a child learns a second language after early childhood they are not likely to develop native language proficiency. Language dialects across europe gradually merge and overlap. Mutual intelligibility: the degree to which speakers of two languages or dialects can understand each other. Political and linguistic considerations (country borders and mutual intelligibility) determine whether a language is a dialect or a unique language. The (cid:498)first generation(cid:499) is the people who immigrated. Heritage language: the language spoken in an immigrant"s country of origin. The (cid:498)second generation(cid:499) is children of immigrants or children who immigrated at a very young age.