Psychology 3140F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Explicit Memory, Early Start, Competition Model
21 Nov 2016
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Doesn"t necessarily mean that children have one underlying language system because adult bilinguals do so. Code-switching governed by knowledge of 2 syntactic systems: empirical evidence. Much of the research on the question of whether or not bfla children have separate language systems has examined morpho-syntactic characteristics of children"s speech. Usually these are case studies of children"s spontaneous speech recorded and transcribed. Separate development hypothesis (differentiation hypothesis) - children differentiate their two languages as soon as they have access to grammatical knowledge: de houwer: reviewed existing studies based on. All of these studies provided evidence for her separate development hypothesis: children regularly exposed to 2 languages from birth will develop two distinct morpho-syntactic systems. It doesn"t have any fundamental effect on each system: there may be a cross-language transfer. Within a unilingual utterance by a bfla child, structural features of the other language may appear: dopke: english-german bilingual children, 2-4 years old, 1 parent and 1 language.
