bilingual children

[Charles Watkins]

Both languages from the start: I am sure the key to acquisition is affect.
That means the child has to relate affectively from birth through the medium
of both languages

I speak as a parent of two bilingual boys (French and English) and as
doctoral student in linguistics researching into the theory of deixis using
a bilingual corpus. I have therefore no specialist psycholinguistic
knowledge, just good old intuition and obervation.

Charles  Watkins

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Sneha V Bharadwaj <snehab at utdallas.edu>
À : info-childes at childes.psy.cmu.edu <info-childes at childes.psy.cmu.edu>
Date : mercredi 9 décembre 1998 00:37
Objet : bilingual children


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>I have come across several bilingual families who have asked me
>following questions :  "At what age do we expose two languages to the NEW
>BORN?"  and "At what age do we seroiusly consider one-parent one-language
>approach"?
> Can we give parents any definitive answers? Thanks in advance
>to all your replies
>-Sneha Bharadwaj.
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