A comprehensive textbook on bilingual language acquisition.
Increasingly, children grow up hearing two languages from birth. This comprehensive textbook explains how children learn to understand and speak those languages.
It brings together both established knowledge and the latest findings about different areas of bilingual language development. It also includes new analyses of previously published materials. The book describes how bilingually raised children learn to understand and use sounds, words and sentences in two languages.
A recurrent theme is the large degree of variation between bilingual children. This variation in how children develop bilingually reflects the variation in their language learning environments. Positive attitudes from the people in bilingual children's language learning environments and their recognition that child bilingualism is not monolingualism-times-two are the main ingredients ensuring that children grow up to be happy and expert speakers of two languages.
- 312 pages
- English
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Bilingual First Language Acquisition
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Table of contents
- Coverpage
- Titlepage
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1 Introducing Bilingual First Language Acquisition
- 2 Bilingual children's language development: an overview
- 3 Research methods in BFLA
- 4 Socializing environments and BLFA
- 5 Sounds in BFLA
- 6 Words in BFLA
- 7 Sentences in BFLA
- 8 Harmonious bilingual development
- Appendix A Subject selection: making sure you are dealing with BFLA
- Appendix B Behavioral studies of early speech perception in BFLA infants
- Appendix C Behavioral studies of early phonetic word learning in BFLA infants
- Appendix D Studies of the use of speech rhythm in young BFLA children
- Appendix E Studies of the use of speech segments in young BFLA children
- Appendix F Studies comparing lexical development in MFLA and BFLA/ESLA
- Appendix G Studies of BFLA supporting the Separate Development Hypothesis
- Appendix H Main morphosyntactic topics investigated in empirical studies of BFLA supporting the SDH
- Appendix I Not using particular kinds of grammatical elements and what this might mean in terms of crosslinguistic influence
- Glossary
- Bibiliography
- Child index
- Language index
- Subject index
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