Early learning
Singh, Rajendra. "Neurolinguistic Aspects of the Native Speaker." Singh, Rajendra. The Native Speaker: Multilingual Perspectives. New Delhi: Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd, 1998. 205-217.
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In this book, Rajendra Singh attempts to explain how people do not speak the same language, but rather speak different dialects of the same language (the argument Singh supports is that we speak in an unilingual environment). Singh argues that children that have been raised in a bilingual environment have a different experience from children that grew up in a monolingual environment (note it is not the same as unilingual). In her research, Singh obtains evidence that supports the argument that if one person learns a language by the age of 5 but switches to only speaking a different language afterwards, this person will not be a native speaker of the first language, but in fact change to the second learned language and be fluent in that one instead. This relates to the proposed question, “How can the inability to speak the language spoken by the family set one apart from one’s own culture?” as one can utilize the examples used by the author as illustrations of as important evidence to be used throughout the research. In chapter 10, the author Rajendra Singh provides the reader with her opinion (based on extensive research performed by the author) of her perspective of what being a native speaker actually is.