Author Question: According to the introductory discussion of bilingualism, a. more than half of the people in the ... (Read 25 times)

KimWrice · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

According to the introductory discussion of bilingualism,

a. more than half of the people in the world are at least partially bilingual.
b. technically, a multilingual is someone who speaks two different languages that have different historical origins.
c. a speaker's first language is the language that she or he currently speaks most fluently.
d. the majority of the world's bilinguals learned their second language during high school.

Question 2

Jason is an infant whose parents speak English in the home. When his parents are at work, Jason stays in a family day care home where all the employees speak only Spanish. Jason is experiencing

a. multilingualism.
b. a confirmation of the critical period hypothesis.
c. sequential bilingualism.
d. simultaneous bilingualism.