LING 100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Code-Switching, United States Census Bureau
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Receptive bilinguals (can understand but not speak very well) Bilinguals must solve a number of language-related problems. How to choose which language to speak in. How to recognize which language is being spoken. Early bilingualism is not bad for children. How bilinguals control their two languages? (keeping them apart?) Able to turn off the language you aren"t using. Inability to turn off the language you aren"t using. Words from both languages compete for selection. Change of the nature of the first language due to living abroad for a long time. Most people in the world speak more than one language. According to a 2007 us census bureau report. Until recently, this has been largely ignored in studies on language and cognition. Out of all people over the age of 5; 55 million indicated that they spoke another language besides english at home. 42 million of these people rated their english to be well or very well.
