PSYC 341 Study Guide - Phonological Development, Language Transfer, Language Disorder

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 341
• Professor: Richard Koestner

Document Summary

Bilingual first language acquisition (bfla: definition, focuses on the simultaneous acquisition of two languages from birth, history, ronjat. Published a description of his son"s simultaneous acquisition of. Son showed excellent progress and little or no confusion in the two languages. Ronjat attributed this to their one parent, one language rule. Published a diary on his daughter"s simultaneous acquisition of. Also used the one parent, one language rule. Daughter passed through a stage where she used words from both languages, which leopold interpreted as her functioning as a monolingual and confusing the two languages. Cut-off for simultaneous learners is exposure to two languages within one month of birth: mclaughlin. Proposed cut-off of exposure to two languages before 3 years of age: genesee and nicoladis. Use those with simultaneous acquisition from birth up to 4 years of age in their discussion. 1: child has one lexical system with words from both languages.