Languages As Categories
Reframing the "One Language or Two" Question in Early Bilingual Development
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4502850 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Krista Byers-Heinlein (0000-0002-7040-2510, Concordia University, corresponding author), Krista Byers‐heinlein (Concordia University) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | s2 |
| Pages | 184-201 |
| Publication date | 2014-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language Learning (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-8333 • E-ISSN: 1467-9922 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/lang.12055 |
| OpenAlex | W1955116558 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 81 |
One of the most enduring questions in the field of bilingualism is whether bilingual infants and children initially have one language system or two. Research with adults indicates that, while bilinguals do not represent their languages in two fully encapsulated language systems, they are able to functionally differentiate their languages. This article proposes that bilinguals differentiate their languages insofar as they can treat elements of their languages as belonging to different categories. Several lines of research with bilingual adults and children are considered in the context of perceptual and conceptual language categories. The article ends with a discussion of how language categories might emerge over the course of early bilingual development and outlines directions for future research
Cognitive reframing · Comprehension approach · Context (archaeology) · Developmental linguistics · Developmental psychology · Language development · Language education · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Neuroscience of multilingualism · Language Development and Disorders · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development
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Translation equivalent and cross-language semantic priming in bilingual toddlers
Early audiovisual language discrimination
Early lexical expression in children exposed to mixed input
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Fine‐tuning language discrimination
Bilingual Language Input to Infants in Bolivia and the United States
How to juggle languages
The Extraordinary Ordinary
Interaction in bilingual early speech acquisition
The Acquisition of Two Languages from Birth
A Neurolinguistic Theory of Bilingualism
Speech and Brain Mechanisms
Talking with strangers
The development of a word-learning strategy
A precursor of language acquisition in young infants
How do highly proficient bilinguals control their lexicalization process? Inhibitory and language-specific selection mechanisms are both functional.
Native-language recognition abilities in 4-month-old infants from monolingual and bilingual environments
Infant sensitivity to distributional information can affect phonetic discrimination
Parental language mixing
The Bilingual Language Interaction Network for Comprehension of Speech
Language Discrimination by English-Learning 5-Month-Olds
Primir
Children's use of mutual exclusivity to constrain the meanings of words
Bilingual Language Switching in Naming
Recognition of Cognates and Interlingual Homographs
Juggling Two Languages in One Mind
Language discrimination by newborns
The architecture of the bilingual word recognition system
Frequent frames as a cue for grammatical categories in child directed speech
Newborn infants’ sensitivity to perceptual cues to lexical and grammatical words
Lexical access in bilingual speech production
Category Interference in Translation and Picture Naming
Language Switching Costs in Bilingual Visual Word Recognition
Mental control of the bilingual lexico-semantic system
Statistical Learning by 8-Month-Old Infants
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (Gurt) 2001
Early understanding of two words for the same thing
Do bilingual two-year-olds have separate phonological systems
Bilingual lexical interactions in an unsupervised neural network model
Infants can use distributional cues to form syntactic categories
Early bilingual development
On the logic of contrast
Can bilingual two-year-olds code-switch
Language differentiation by the bilingual infant
Cross-language synonyms in the lexicons of bilingual infants
The acquisition and development of language by bilingual children
Beyond ‘One System or Two?’
Categorizing words using ‘frequent frames’
Within‐rhythm Class Native Language Discrimination Abilities of Basque‐Spanish Monolingual and Bilingual Infants at 3.5 Months of Age
Language Experience Shapes the Development of the Mutual Exclusivity Bias
Evidence of Early Language Discrimination Abilities in Infants From Bilingual Environments
Tutorials in Bilingualism
The Bilingual's Linguistic Performance—A Psychological Overview
Semantic and Conceptual Knowledge Underlying Bilingual Babies' First Signs and Words
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A Longitudinal Study of Pragmatic Differentiation in Young Bilingual Children
Language differentiation in bilingual children
| Unique citing works | 12 |
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| Citations per year | 1,2 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |