HUMA 17000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Multilingualism, Heritage Language
15 Aug 2016
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Crystal, d. (2000) language death (cambridge university press) Usually a metric of language proficiency is implied proficiency = fluency= (closer to an) automated process. A bilingual is a person in possession of two languages: Bilingual is a person who speaks fluently two languages. Bilingual is a person who is able to function in two languages. Bilingual is a person who can understand two languages but possibly function only in one. Different reasons make people bilingual at different times, contexts and to different degrees; domain specific balanced bilingual (or equilingual) simultaneous bilingual asymmetrical bilingual (or receptive) dominant bilingual ascendant bilingual recessive bilingual. Here we are talking about a weaker language early bilingual, late bilingual successive bilingual (learned l2 via instruction) Heritage speakers: a heritage speaker grew up to a household with exposure to a minority language, minority language: a language that is not the dominant language of wider society.
