Compound vs Coordinate Bilinguals
>> My understanding is that coordinate bilinguals will
>> not even try to find matches, they will simply use
>> the correct word according to the context. Compound
>> bilinguals, on the other hand, will tend to carry
>> the same baggage in each language,and have a much
>> tighter match in semantic mappings.
> so, would a person who grows up bi-lingual (say someone
> who lives somewhere in Europe where everyone just knows
> and speaks multiple languages) would this person be
> "compound bi-lingual" or "coordinate bi-lingual"?
It depends, they could be either.
Again, I'm not an expert, but I would generally expect that,
in the main, someone growing up exposed to two languages is
more likely to be a coordinate bilingual, and someone who
acquires a second language as an adult is more likely to be
a compound bilingual. In this latter case they are more
likely to have terms defined in their existing language,
and so transfer the baggage and have a single underlying
semantic model.
If anyone knows anything about this subject I'd be pleased
to hear them contribute ...
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