Open AccessFIRST AND SECOND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT IN YOUNG CHILDREN AND BILINGUALISM IN LIGHT OF LINGUISTICS, NEUROLINGUISTICS AND FINDINGS FROM BRAIN RESEARCH
Author(s) -
Yunus Pınar,
Nihal Kubilay Pınar,
Betul Cetintas
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
i̇dil sanat ve dil dergisi/i̇dil dergisi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2147-3056
pISSN - 2146-9903
DOI - 10.7816/idil-04-18-01
Subject(s) - neurolinguistics , neuroscience of multilingualism , linguistics , historical linguistics , psychology , applied linguistics , comparative linguistics , psycholinguistics , sociology , philosophy , neuroscience , cognition , gender studies , feminism , philology
The present review shows that infants begin picking up elements of what will be their first language in the womb, and certainly long before their first coo according to the current guidelines and it presents a descriptive approach to bilingualism and multilingualism. This article is the outcome of a thorough survey of literature and primarily it aims to present the similarities and differences between the L1 and L2 acquisition in light of linguistics, neurolinguistics and findings from brain research. This Review will illustrate various thought and new hypotheses on first and second language development, bilingualism and multilingualism derived from studies in linguistics, neurolinguistics and brain research. In the context of our paper we shall try to describe aspects and stages of first language acquisition from even before birth especially the 20th week of the fetal development of the baby to 60th week of life, as well as the second language acquisition process, which is divided into three types: simultaneous, consecutive and adult. In particular, we will present and discuss some of the main results of the brain researchers like Franceschini and De Bleser and we shall interpret them