CONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE VISUAL OBJECTS BY MONOLINGUALS AND BILINGUALS

CONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE VISUAL OBJECTS BY MONOLINGUALS AND BILINGUALS

Author:  E. Protassova, V. Petrovskaja, Z. Proskurina, N. Rodina

Abstract: 
The parallel acquisition of two languages – Russian and Finnish or another language – is compared to the Russian language acquisition by monolinguals. The results obtained show that children try to coordinate their utterances in both languages, that they cross-transfer some grammatical constructions and cultural knowledge, and that they lack some lexis.

Keywords:  criteria for classification, symbolization, cross-transfer, associative scenario