LINA02H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: First Language, Epenthesis, Markedness

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Bilingualism is hard to study because no one case is the same. All children learn at different rates and in different situations. Do not speak to a baby in two languages. Chose one or the baby will be confused. Children can definitely pick up two languages. Children that learn two languages will be behind their peers. Bilingual children actually score higher than monolingual children on certain tests. Both bilingual and monolingual babies hit most of the same milestones at the same time: i. e. babbling, first words, overall rate of vocabulary. Their morpho-syntactic development is about the same as well, in the dominant language of the bilingual. Both l1 and bilingual children have the same size of vocabulary but in the case of the bilingual child, it is split between the two languages. They have the same amount of words however. Delays in bilingual children"s adaptation of some phonological features. Bilingual children need to acquire skills of managing two languages.