The Unitary System Theory
Lang. Acquisition Unit 6

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• The two languages are represented in just one system.
• When recovery of language after trauma is studied, sometimes the first language recovers first, sometime the second language recovers first.
• In the bilingual brain there is a larger system which contains each language in smaller sub-systems.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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The Dual system Theory•
• The two languages are represented somehow in separate systems in the mind. Separate phonemic systems for L1 & L2.
This hypothesis suggests that the bilingual’s two languages are represented in a unified cognitive system.
• The idea of having separated systems would explain the loss of just one of the languages known by bilinguals if the individual has a lesion.
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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The Tripartite System Theory
• In the bilingual brain there are as many systems as many languages bilingual people know.
• In the bilingual brain there is a larger system which contains each language in
• This theory does not explain how bilingual people mix languages in the same sentence, and it is true that they do it.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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The Subsystem Hypothesis
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• In the bilingual brain there is a larger system which contains each language in smaller sub-systems.
In these separate systems the brain stores all linguistic information that is not common to both languages.
• In the bilingual brain, there are as many systems as many languages bilingual people know.
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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Bilingual newborns can distinguish between different languages…
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Children can understand and identify who in the house speaks which language.
· It is difficult for bilinguals to choose the correct language to communicate within a specific situation.
· Bilinguals are capable of developing vocabulary and mixing words (code-switching) in two languages but get confused.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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Coordinated bilingual is a person who…
• acquires the two languages in different contexts.
• learns both languages from native speakers at home, one from your mother and the other from your father, for instance.
• is proficient in one of the two languages.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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Compound bilingual…
· characterize simultaneous bilingualism in early childhood (before the age of three years).
· means that the words of the weaker language are interpreted through the words of the stronger or dominant language.
· belong to two separate or independent systems. When words are alike in the two languages, both have (slightly) different meanings and they can refer to different concepts.
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