Dr. Fred Genesee spoke at Osaka City University with support from Kwansei University on June 13, 2006 on “Bilingual First Language Acquisition: Exploring the Capacity of the Language Faculty.” From the Abstract: “Children who grow up learning two, or more, languages simultaneously provide a unique opportunity to explore the capacity of the language faculty. Under some early views, the language faculty was thought to be limited so that children with simultaneous dual language exposure were thought to be at risk for delayed or, worse, higher incidence of impaired language development in comparison to monolingual language learners. As well, it was thought that the early stages of bilingual acquisition were essentially monolingual with a fused or undifferentiated system of languages. Findings from recent research paint a radically different picture,” bilingual and even possibly “multilingual innate competence for language acquisition.”
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