An Anthology of Bilingual Child Phonology

Elena Babatsouli, Martin J. Ball

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9781788928410
• eBook ISBN:
  9781788928434
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

This edited book is a collection of studies on protolanguage phonology, referring to the development of children's autonomous linguistic systems from their first meaningful forms to complete cognitive and articulatory acquisition of language. The volume comprises chapters on child bilingual phonological development, understood as the acquisition or use of more than one linguistic code, whether actual languages, dialects, or communication modes, in an array of contexts. Such contexts include endogenous and exogenous bilingualism, heritage language, bilectalism, trilingualism, and typical and atypical use. The contributed works here will be of interest to researchers and postgraduate students investigating language acquisition in bi-/multilingual settings, as well as those working on child phonological development across a variety of languages.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Contributors
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Investigating the Linguistic World of the Bilingual Child: Transfer and Code-switching
• 3. Seeking Crosslinguistic Interaction in French Bilingual Phonological Development
• 4. Case Studies of Phonological Development in Six Preschool-aged Russian-Finnish Bilingual Children
• 5. Enhanced Phonology in a Child’s Weaker Language in Bilingualism: A Portrait
• 6. Sensitivity to Morphophonological Cues in Monolingual and Bilingual Children: Evidence from a Nonword Task
• 7. Lexical-semantic Organization in Monolingual and Bilingual Hebrew Speaking Children: Evidence from a Word Association Task
• 8. The Production of Marked Arabic Consonants by Arabic-English Bilingual Children Living in Canada
• 9. On Heritage Accents: Insights from Voice Onset Time Production by Trilingual Heritage Speakers of Spanish
• 10. Linguistic Outcomes and the Role of Phonology in Typically Developing and Late Talking Toddlers
• 11. Stylistic Patterns in the Speech of Young Children and their Caregivers: A Study of Variable /s/ Lenition in Dominican Spanish
• 12. Identification of Protracted Phonological Development across Languages: The Whole Word Match and Basic Mismatch Measures
• 13. Phonological Processing and Nonword Repetition: A Critical Tool for the Identification of Dyslexia in Bilingualism
• Index