ENG 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Second-Language Acquisition, Simultaneous Bilingualism, Vizsla
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Doggie bark, baby chair, mommy shoe you want eat: telegraphic stage / multi-word stage (2-2. 5 yrs) Baby like book, daddy cook dinner, car make noise: function morphemes. 1-ing; 2-plural s; 3-possessive "s; 4-the, a; 5-past ed; 6- 3rd sg-s; 7-aux be) How do kids extend words to classes of objects: start with 1 referent, generalize within one month of acquisition, complexive concepts, overextensions, and underextensions. Whole object: new words apply to the whole object. Taxonomic: labels apply to categories, not temporary co-occurrences of two features. Mutual exclusivity: new words cannot apply to the something that"s already named. Type: words refer to classes of objects. Most likely to be used spontaneously by adults. The bilingual uses the two languages separately or together for different purposes in different domains of life with different people. Because the needs and uses of the two languages are usually quite different, the bilingual is rarely equally or completely fluent in the two languages.
