Crosslinguistic Encounters in Language Acquisition: Typical and Atypical Development

✍ Scribed by Elena Babatsouli (editor); David Ingram (editor); Nicole Müller (editor)

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 312
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents diverse, original research studies on typical and atypical child language acquisition in monolingual, bilingual and bi-dialectal settings, with a focus on development, assessment and research methodology. It will be of interest to researchers, clinical linguists, language pathologists and graduate students.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
Figures and Tables
Contributors
Introduction
Part 1: Typical Language Acquisition
1. Speech Development in Three-year-old Children Acquiring isiXhosa and English in South Africa
2. The Impact of Parent Communication Patterns on Infant Volubility during Play with Books
Part 2: Methods in Language Analysis and Assessment
3. On the Weight of Phones in Computing Phonological Word Proximity
4. Investigating Typical and Protracted Phonological Development across Languages
5. Bilingual Speech Assessment for Maltese Children
6. Early Language Development in a Bilectal Context: The Cypriot Adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates CDI
Part 3: Language Acquisition in the Presence of a Disorder
7. Obstructive Sleep Apnoea Syndrome: Does It Really Affect Language Acquisition during Early Childhood?
8. Language Impairment in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome: A Case Study from Cyprus
9. The Emergence and Development of Self-repair: A Longitudinal Case Study of Specifi c Language Impairment from 3;0 to 6;10 Years
10. Local Assimilation in Children Acquiring Farsi: A Study of Typical versus Atypical Phonological Development
Afterword
Index