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The bilingual child : early development and language contact /

How does a child become bilingual? Drawing on new studies of children exposed to two languages from birth, this book demonstrates how childhood bilingualism develops naturally in response to the two languages in the children's environment.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yip, Virginia, 1962-
Otros Autores: Matthews, Stephen, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Ã2007
Colección:Cambridge approaches to language contact.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Theoretical framework
  • Methodology
  • Wh-interrogatives: to move or not to move?
  • Null objects: dual input and learnability
  • Relative clauses: transfer and universals
  • Vulnerable domains in Cantonese and the directionality of transfer
  • Bilingual development and contact-induced grammaticalization
  • Conclusions and implications.