Linguistic Repertoire and the Lived Experience of Language
The language we use in our daily basis is rooted from the accumulated knowledge from many resources: parents or caregivers, neighborhood, and schools. The notion of linguistic repertoire can be understood as a way we communicate or what language we use for purposes. It should be noted that this linguistic competence and performance grow is not in a rigid way. One knowledge of language could connect to both within and across languages. Therefore, it is essential to comprehend how linguistic repertoire develops and how we should deal with the bilingualism or multilingualism issues. The parents' language influences the language input of the children. Parents who are using French or Italian, Indonesian, any languages, will allow children to imitate the language. Especially in early age exposure, the children not only acquire the internal aspects of the language, such as phonological, morphological, syntactical, but also beyond the grammatical rules of the language, such as the appropr...