Undergraduate Course: Child Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (LASC10077)
Course Outline
| School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Language Sciences |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course provides an overview of current research on child bilingualism from the perspectives of linguistics and cognitive psychology. It focuses on language separation, bilingual lexical and grammatical development, code-switching, and the effects of early bilingualism on general cognition. It also provides elements of methodology and data analysis that will enable students to carry out research with bilingual children. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Visiting students should have at least 3 Linguistics/Language Sciences courses at grade B or above (or be predicted to obtain this). We will only consider University/College level courses. |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
The course will equip students with an understanding of current experimental linguistic and psychological research on child bilingualism and with an ability to plan research projects in this area.
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Assessment Information
| Essay 50%; 2 hour exam 50% |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
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| Reading list |
Bialystok, E. 2003. Bilingualism in Development: Language, Literacy and Cognition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bialystok, E., Craik, F., Green, D. and Gollan, T. 2009. Bilingual minds. Psychological Science in the Public Interest 10: 89¿129.
Byers-Heinlein, K., & Werker, J.F. 2009. Monolingual, bilingual, trilingual: Infants¿ language experience influences the development of a word-learning heuristic. Developmental Science 12, 815¿823.
De Groot, A. 2011. Language and Cognition in Bilinguals and Multilinguals. Hove: Psychology Press.
De Houwer, A. 2007. Parental language input patterns and children¿s bilingual use. Applied Psycholinguistics 28: 411-424.
De Houwer, A. 2009. Bilingual First Language Acquisition. Channel Books.
Sorace, A. and Serratrice, L. 2009. Internal and external interfaces in bilingual language development: Beyond structural overlap. International Journal of Bilingualism 13: 92-125.
Sorace, A., Serratrice, L. Filiaci, F. and Baldo, M. 2009. Discourse conditions on subject pronoun realization: testing the linguistic intuitions of older bilingual children. Lingua 119: 460-477.
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Antonella Sorace
Tel: (0131 6)50 3493
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Course secretary | Ms Stephanie Fong
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