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The Bilingual child: early development and language contact

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How does a child become bilingual? The answer to this intriguing question
remains largely a mystery, not least because it has been far less extensively
researched than the process of mastering a single first language.
Drawing on new studies of children exposed to two languages from birth
(English and Cantonese), this book demonstrates how childhood bilingualism
develops naturally in response to the two languages in the children’s environment.
While each bilingual child’s profile is unique, the children studied are
shown to develop quite differently from monolingual children. The authors
demonstrate significant interactions between the children’s developing grammars,
as well as the important role played by language dominance in their
bilingual development.
Based on original research and using findings from the largest available
multimedia bilingual corpus, the book will be welcomed by students and
scholars working in child language acquisition, bilingualism and language
contact.

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Detail Information

Series Title

Cambridge approaches to language contact

Call Number

404.2083 YIP b

Publisher

enk : Cambridge University Press., 2007

Collation

xxiii, 295 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Language

Inggris

ISBN/ISSN

9780521836173

Classification

e400

Content Type

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Edition

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Subject(s)

LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
Languages in contact
Bilingualism in children

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Statement of Responsibility

Virginia Yip, Stephen Matthews.

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