The Bilingual Child by Virginia Yip
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 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.-
The Sociolinguistics of Globalization
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The Linguistic Legacy of Spanish and Portuguese
- Nahuatl and its Speakers across Time
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The Making of Vernacular Singapore English
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Contact Languages
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Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific
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The Emergence of Hybrid Grammars
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The Ecology of Language Evolution
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Youth Language Practices and Urban Language Contact in Africa
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Complexity in Language
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World Englishes and Culture Wars
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Language Contact in Europe
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Diglossia and Language Contact
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The Lingua Franca
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Language Contact and Grammatical Change
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Language Contact and the Making of an Afro-Hispanic Vernacular
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Postcolonial English
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Bilingual Language Acquisition
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A Linguistic Geography of Africa
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Linguistic Ecology and Language Contact
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Liquid Languages
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Dynamics of Language Contact
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Translingual Practices
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Voices of Immigration
'One of the most striking strengths of this book can be found in Yip and Matthews's continued attempts to bridge theoretical frameworks and reconcile seemingly divergent approaches to the study of bilingualism … this work will undoubtedly prove useful to students and researchers across many disciplines' Studies in Second Language Acquisition
'… this book deserves attention for its extensive data base. … it is an important book. … a 'must-read' for researchers studying language acquisition.' Journal of Linguistics
'… this book deserves attention for its extensive data base. … it is an important book. … a 'must-read' for researchers studying language acquisition.' Journal of Linguistics
Virginia Yip is Professor in Linguistics and Modern Languages at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Stephen Matthews is Associate Professor in Linguistics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780521836173 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521836174 |
| Title | The Bilingual Child |
| Author | Virginia Yip |
| Series | Cambridge Approaches To Language Contact |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2007-08-27 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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