Second Language Acquisition

Question 1

What does the critical period lack of consensus mean?

Answer 1

phonetics: age 6-12
lexical-collocational abilities: 6-mid teens
morphosyntax: mid teens
difficult to measure

Question 2

What is phonetics/phonology offset for L2 acquisiton?

Answer 2

to be native speaker: age 12
variation as adults can still achieve

Question 3

What is cross linguistic influence on morphosyntax?

Answer 3

if language A has more than one structure, language B has one, child will adopt structure fitting both

Question 4

What is the dominant language affect on morphosyntax?

Answer 4

bilingual children more likely to incorporate structure from dominant language into weaker one (than vice versa)

Question 5

What is asynchronous development of morphosyntax?

Answer 5

features are acquired at different types for language A and B

Question 6

What are the milestones for bilingual and monolingual children lexical development?

Answer 6

first words at 12-13M
rates of acquisition are similar (bilingual is comparable or greater)

Question 7

What is the conceptual vocabulary of lexical development?

Answer 7

total number of labeled concepts in 2 languages, when counting duplicates

Question 8

What are cross linguistic influence in compounds for lexical development?

Answer 8

bilingual children produce ungrammatical VO compounds more than monolingual children

Question 9

What is the phonological development of bilingual children? (perception)

Answer 9

discrimination of rhythm: infants can differentiate between native and non if have different rhythmic groups
phonetic contrasts: infants can discriminate phonetic contrasts that are not phonemic to their native language

Question 10

What is the phonological development of bilingual children? (production)

Answer 10

bilingual children have delay of 3 months in ability to use phonetic contrasts