This book contains reports of research on bilingualism in infants and children as well as perspectives from those involved in cross-linguistic research on language development, literacy development in bilingual children, and psycholinguistic research on bilingualism in adults. It offers a fresh multidisciplinary perspective and next steps for research on childhood bilingualism.

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Languages & Linguistics

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Languages & Linguistics

Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 Bilingual Speech Processing in Infants and Adults
Chapter 2 When Infants Hear Two Languages:Interpreting Research on Early Speech Perception by Bilingual Children
Chapter 3 The Onset of Word Form Recognition in One Language and in Two
Chapter 4 Bilingual First Language Acquisition in Perspective
Chapter 5 Social Factors in Bilingual Development: The Miami Experience
Chapter 6 Developing Literacy in English-language Learners: An Examination of the Impact of English-only Versus Bilingual Instruction
Chapter 7 Bilingualism at School: Effect on the Acquisition of Literacy
Chapter 8 Adult Bilingualism and Bilingual Development
Chapter 9 Finding the Points of Contact: Language Acquisition in Children Raised in Monolingual, Bilingual and Multilingual Environments
Chapter 10 Multiple Perspectives on Research on Childhood Bilingualism
Chapter 11 An Agenda for Research on Childhood Bilingualism
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