Bilingual First Language Acquisition

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Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 432
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This textbook explains how children learn to understand and speak two languages from birth. It brings together both established knowledge and the latest findings about different areas of bilingual language development in a perspective that emphasizes the role of children's language learning environments.

✦ Table of Contents

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
Appendices
Glossary
Bibiliography
Child index
Language index
Subject index

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