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 2Jason 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.
Question 3Anne is 20 years old, and she has spoken English all her life. She has taken Spanish courses in both high school and college.
She enrolls in a study-abroad program in Buenos Aires and becomes fluent in Spanish, before returning to the United States. Anne's situation is an example of
a. sequential bilingualism.
b. simultaneous bilingualism.
c. metalinguistics.
d. multilingualism.
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