This book critically examines the effects of language specificity on phonological acquisition and disorder through a collection of empirical studies of children learning typologically very different languages. The studies address many theoretical, clinical and methodological issues, such as: What ro
Phonological Development and Disorders in Children: A Multilingual Perspective
β Scribed by Zhu Hua (editor); Barbara Dodd (editor)
- Publisher
- Multilingual Matters
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 490
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
This book brings together empirical studies on phonological acquisition and disorder of monolingual children speaking different languages. The research findings provide much-needed information for clinical assessment and diagnosis as well as valuable evidence concerning theories of language acquisition and the role of the ambient language.
β¦ Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Part 1: Introduction
1. A Multilingual Perspective on Phonological Development and Disorders
2. The Need for Comparable Criteria in Multilingual Studies
Part 2: Monolingual Context
3. English Phonology: Acquisition and Disorder
4. Evidence from German-Speaking Children
5. The Normal and Disordered Phonology of Putonghua (Modern Standard Chinese)-Speaking Children
6. Cantonese Phonological Development: Normal and Disordered
7. Phonological Development of Maltese-Speaking Children
8. Syllabic Constraints in the Phonological Errors of Children with Pre-lingual Hearing Loss: A Perspective from Telugu
9. Phonological Development and Disorders: Colloquial Egyptian Arabic
10. Phonological Acquisition and Disorders in Turkish
Part 3: Bilingual Context
11. Aspects of Bilingual Phonology: The Case of SpanishβEnglish Bilingual Children
12. Phonological Development and Disorder of Bilingual Children Acquiring Cantonese and English
13. Phonological Acquisition in Bilingual Pakistani Heritage Children in England
14. Phonological Development and Disorder of Bilingual Children Acquiring Welsh and English
15. Phonological Acquisition by ArabicβEnglish Bilingual Children
16. Phonological Development of CantoneseβPutonghua Bilingual Children
Part 4: Coda
17. Towards Developmental Universals
References
Appendix
Index
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