Dialects
This term describes any variety of a language shared by a group of speakers.
What is a "dialect"
This type of bilingualism occurs when a child learns two languages from birth.
What is "simultaneous bilingualism?"
This term describes language variations based on region, culture, or social group.
What is a "dialect?"
True or False: Learning two languages from birth causes developmental delays.
What is "false?"
During Stage 1 of simultaneous bilingualism, a child uses two languages but combines these elements initially.
What are "phonologies?"
Unlike an accent, this encompasses broader language differences, including grammar and semantics.
What is a "dialect?"
Retaining one’s native language while mastering a second language occurs in this context.
What is "additive bilingualism?"
The way a person pronounces words, such as saying "ca" for "car," is referred to as this.
What is an "accent?"
This false belief suggests that children learn a second language quickly and effortlessly.
What is "The younger the child, the faster they acquire a second language?"
By Stage 2, a child separates vocabularies but still uses this for both languages.
What is "one grammatical system?"
Dropping the /r/ in “car” to say “ca” is an example of this regional dialect.
What is the "New England and Northeast dialect?"
This phenomenon involves mixing vocabulary and grammar from two languages in the same sentence.
What is "code mixing?"
These dialects reflect the influences of a group's culture, heritage, and primary language on their use of a second language.
What are "social/cultural dialects?"
True or False: Bilingual input slows down first or second-language development.
What is "false?"
By this stage of simultaneous bilingualism, the child has separate vocabularies and grammatical systems.
What is "Stage 3?"
This social/cultural dialect developed as a hybrid of African, Portuguese, Dutch, and English.
What is "African American English (AAE)?"
The process of acquiring a second language after mastering the first is known as this.
What is "successive bilingualism?"
Dialects can differ in these five major areas of language.
What are "grammar, phonology, semantics, vocabulary, and pragmatics?"
This theory wrongly suggests that bilingual children’s language mixing reflects confusion rather than a natural stage of language development.
What is "the myth of bilingual confusion?"
In Stage 2 of successive bilingualism, the child creates an interlanguage that combines these elements.
What are the "rules from both languages?"
The process by which a Creole language becomes more like the dominant language is called this.
What is "decreolization?"
By what age do simultaneous bilinguals typically achieve language equivalence to monolingual norms in at least one language?
What is "3-5 years old?"
This is a simplified communication system used by speakers of different languages, which can evolve into a Creole.
What is a "Pidgin?"
This idea, often applied to teaching, wrongly suggests that parents should speak only one language to their children.
What is the "One-Parent, One-Language Strategy?"
By the end of successive bilingualism, the child focuses on applying the rules of this language.
What is "the second language?"