bilingual babbling?

[Sunil kumar Ravi]

Respected,

Iam a student of Master of Science (Speech - Language Pathology) at All
India Institute of Speech and Hearing. INDIA.

regarding that question of how is babbling in bilingual child, actually
speaking, babbling does not depend on any of the language. let it be L1 or
L2. I will give one example of hearing impaired children. children with
congenital hearinmg impairement also produces babbling. that is, their
language development will be normal till this babbling stage in the
development of language. here, without hearing any language only, children
are able to produce babbling. so.. babbling does not depend on any language
which we use.

There are some studies regarding babbling in Hearing impaired children and
most of the studies says this only.

This answer is based on my experience with children with hearing impaired in
our clinic. and this is purely my opinion, anyone can give their
suggestions.

Regards.

Sunil Kumar. Ravi

On Feb 7, 2008 1:33 AM, Barbara Pearson <bpearson at research.umass.edu> wrote:

> Dear Carol,
> There is interesting material on bilingual babies' perception of their two
> languages, which you will find reviewed in articles by Janet Werker (in
> McCardle & Hoff, 2006, and Applied Psycholinguistics 2007, volume 28 (3)).
> (I report on it a little in an article in the forthcoming Cambridge Handbook
> of Child Language, edited by Edith Bavin.)  The psycholinguistic
> methodologies show pretty clearly that bilingual babies can distinguish the
> phonetic/ phonemic characteristics of their two languages
> "prelinguistically."  Whether they can reproduce the differences
> reliably--again prelinguistically--is still open to debate.  But your
> student should know that there is debate.  Our student Ana Navarro
> summarized various positions in the introduction to her dissertation, part
> of which is in the ISB4 volume.
>
> *Navarro, A., Pearson, B. Z., Cobo-Lewis, A.B., & Oller, D. K.* *(2005)*.
>   Differentiation in early phonological adaptation?   In J. Cohen, K.
> McAlister, K. Rolstad, & J. MacSwan (Eds.) *ISB4: Proceedings of the 4 th
> International Symposium on Bilingualism *(pp.1690-1702).   Somerville, MA:
> Cascadilla Press.
>
> Your student's question about mixing the elements of both languages
> depends on the prior question of when babies can be said to have elements of
> both languages to mix.  There are claims to the contrary--and we think we
> see some movement away from universal tendencies in production by 11
> months--but we think the common claim to hear babies babbling in different
> languages (bilinguals, or monolinguals in different languages) depends on a
> combination of expectation on the part of the hearer and the production of
> early words interspersed in the babbling, which persists for quite some
> time.
>
> Ana's experiment used early words produced by children 26 months old, and
> with children that old, listeners were barely able to distinguish the
> language the child was using when they didn't have the lexical information
> to guide them.  That is not prelinguistic and it doesn't mean that there
> might not be some nascent tendencies toward differentiation in the acoustics
> of the speech signal, but the ears *of people who don't know which language
> they are hearing* don't reliably pick the differences out. (Until computers,
> it was hard to remove language context in the tapes people used for the
> studies.) In words (again not babbling), we and others have noted some
> intrusion of one language in the other, but apparently much less than in the
> popular idea illustrated in your example.  There are also dominance
> patterns, as you mention, so some children, even simultaneous bilinguals, do
> show the patterns of only one language.  Ana worked with Spanish and
> English, which may be more similar than French and Chinese, but they are
> nonetheless rhythmically very different.
>
> Some of the people studying the acquisition of Chinese tones can also
> weigh in here about how soon after the onset of canonical babbling Chinese
> children use different tonal patterns.  But there's my two-cents.
>
> Till soon,
>
> Barbara
>
>
>  On Feb 6, 2008, at 11:21 AM, Carol Slater wrote:
>
>
> Dear All--
> After a discussion of the influence of local language on babbling, a
> student asked whether anything was known about babbling in babies who heard
> two languages regularly. Would they show both influences, e.g., produce
> French sounds with Chinese tonal differences? Settle for one of the
> languages? Does anybody have a clue? Many thanks for any information (or
> reassurance that we don't really know much about it).
> Carol Slater
> Alma College
> Alma MI 48801
>
>
>
>
>
>  ********************************************************
> Barbara Zurer Pearson, Ph. D.
> Depts. of Linguistics and Communication Disorders
> Research Associate, Coordinator
> South College 226
> University of Massachusetts
> Amherst MA 01003
>
> 413.545.5023
> fax: 545.2792
>
> bpearson at research.umass.edu
> http://www.umass.edu/aae/bp_indexold.htm/
>
>
>
> >
>


-- 
Yours
Mr.Sunilkumar.Ravi,
1st M.Sc (Speech - Language Pathology)
AIISH,
Mysore.
+919964051678.

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