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THEORETICAL GAINS FROM THE STUDY OF BILINGUALISM: A CASE REPORT
Author(s) -
Levy Yonata
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
language learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.882
H-Index - 103
eISSN - 1467-9922
pISSN - 0023-8333
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-1770.1985.tb00360.x
Subject(s) - psychology , neuroscience of multilingualism , linguistics , hebrew , theoretical linguistics , developmental psychology , language acquisition , cognitive psychology , mathematics education , philosophy , neuroscience
The problem of gaining insights into the young child's emerging linguistic competencies has been examined within the field of child language in several ways. The most common studies have been those examining the normal child, in her normal environment, typically interacting with a familiar adult. This study suggests that crucial insights may be gained through an examination of the child's linguistic abilities in cognitively‐demanding situations during which one can observe the limitations placed upon the child's abilities at a given time in development. Our claim is illustrated by a case study that concerns the meta‐linguistic abilities of a bilingual two‐year old learning Hebrew and English simultaneously.