a question about multilingual babies

Mon May 9 04:34:20 UTC 2011

Dear Parisa,

Did you actually read what the link was about? It was about  frenotomy (cutting
1 to 1.5 cm from the strap of tissue linking the tongue to the floor of the
mouth), and in a Reuters article, which I would not call scientific
evidence, but rather someone quoting a hearsay. .

Best

Sharon

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 7:18 AM, parisa Daftarifard
<pdaftaryfard at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear Mohinish,
>
> Thank you for your question. Although Bilingualism might not be a risk
> factor (nobody said this for sure through research though) but would
> compound the situaiton if the child has the hiden autistic factors. Although
> there are many as you can read below suggest that early bilingualism
> might increase autistic symptoms.
>
> http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000085.html
>
>
> who would like to create a risky situation for his or her kids.
> 1.  There is no well known reason discovered for autism.
> 2.  there are many disagreements about the way children learn language
>
> what your result would  be? To rush the poor baby in a risky situation that
> some articles with limited number of subjects showed or in a natural
> situation where billions of children are grown up.
>
> Bilingualism can be achieved even when the baby starts speaking one
> language. Why should we expose our kids to two or three or even worse four
> languages to have maybe a healthy cognitively high (we don't know how much
> higher statistically?) boy in future and *maybe not!*
> *As a mother and researcher I suggest you give your kid time to learn his
> first language! then help him learn as many languages as he would like when
> he starts speaking.*
>
> Best,
> Parisa
>
>   On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Mohinish <mohinish.s at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  I too share other posters' understanding that bilingualism is not a risk
>> factor. In fact Kovács & Mehler (PNAS, 2009:
>> http://www.pnas.org/content/106/16/6556.short) show that there can be
>> cognitive GAINS in 7-mo-old bilinguals, compared to monolinguals.
>>
>> I think there is a causal asymmetry - certain developmental trajectories
>> that lead to abnormal conditions like autism might include language delays,
>> but language delays by themselves need not be the CAUSE of these conditions;
>> and I would be very interested to see evidence that language delay CAUSES
>> problems like autism. We know that there can be substantial variation in,
>> e.g, production, such that some kids start speaking earlier than others.  I
>> don't think that the later-speaking kids' 'delays' count as pathological at
>> all.
>>
>> Parisa, could you include some key references that suggest that learning a
>> single language early is better than learning multiple languages?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Mohinish
>>
>>
>>
>>   On May 8, 2011, at 11:11 PM, parisa Daftarifard wrote:
>>
>>   Language delay is much more dangerous than loosing time for true
>> bilingualism. There are many risk factors like being autistic, developmental
>> delay and global delay in terms of cognition. I think recent psychology
>> suggests for learning one language first and then being exposed to other
>> languages. I can send you some books off list.
>>
>> Best,
>> Parisa
>>
>> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:55 AM, beachjade <beachjade at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Tamar and Yves,
>>>
>>> There is a recent paper by Janet Werker that may be relevant to your
>>> second question about how early should you expose your child to his many
>>> languages.  In contrast to an earlier response to your post, my reading of
>>> the literature suggests that bilingualism/multilingualism in an of itself is
>>> not a risk factor in development.  This is echoed by
>>>
>>> http://www.lsadc.org/info/pdf_files/Bilingual.pdf
>>>
>>>  <http://www.lsadc.org/info/pdf_files/Bilingual.pdf>
>>> http://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/pspi/pspi_10_3.pdf
>>>
>>>  <http://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/pspi/pspi_10_3.pdf>
>>> http://www.psychologicalscience.org/media/releases/2010/werker.cfm
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Tamar & Yves <tamarmr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello all,
>>>> Our 10 months old son is exposed to 3 languages at home ( each one of
>>>> us is speaking to him his mother- tongue, and we speak English between
>>>> us) and to a 4th one outside.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Soon he will be starting Nursery, and we were wondering what language
>>>> it should be in. Is it better to expose him simultaneously to all 4
>>>> languages or should we do it gradually over the first few years of his
>>>> life (It's possible to sign him up to a nursery in my husnband's
>>>> mother tongue (2)/ english (3)/ bi lingual (enviroment+English)(4))
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We don't want language acquisition to be too much of a burden on him,
>>>> and not sure how many languages he can learn at once.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We are aware of the large number of factors affecting the answer, but
>>>> does anyone know or refer us to research done on the specific issues
>>>> of (i) number of languages babies can learn and its implication on
>>>> their emotional state; and (ii) Is it better to expose a baby to those
>>>> languages simultaneously or gradually over the first few years of his
>>>> life.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Tamar & Yves
>>>>
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