LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT IN BILINGUAL CHILDREN: FROM SOUNDS TO SENTENCES

Childrens task is essentially the same regardless of the number of languages they are learning: They need to map meaning to form, convey, or decode a linguistic message. At the same time, bilingual children are not the sum of two monolinguals and dealing with two languages creates situations that do...

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Published in:The Volta review 2022-01, Vol.121 (1.2), p.28-42
Main Author: Serratrice, Ludovica
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age
Bilingualism
Children
Children & youth
Educational Finance
Individual differences
Individualized Instruction
Language acquisition
Language Skills
Learning Processes
Linguistics
Monolingualism
Newborn babies
Phonetics
Preferences
Second language learning
Sentence structure
Siblings
Syntactic processing
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Summary:Childrens task is essentially the same regardless of the number of languages they are learning: They need to map meaning to form, convey, or decode a linguistic message. At the same time, bilingual children are not the sum of two monolinguals and dealing with two languages creates situations that do not arise in the learning of just one language. Issues of language differentiation and cross-linguistic interaction are core to the development of bilingual children from their early sound discrimination to the production of complex sentences. Evidence from the role of relative amount of language exposure, individual differences in processing efficiency, and the shared nature of syntactic representations contributes to our understanding of different stages of language development in young bilinguals.
ISSN:0042-8639
2162-5158
DOI:10.17955/tvr.121.1.2.symp