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Childhood bilingualism : research on infancy through school age /

Contains reports of research on bilingualism in infants and children as well as perspectives from those involved in cross-linguistic research on language development, literacy development in bilingual children, and psycholinguistic research on bilingualism in adults.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: McCardle, Peggy D., Hoff, Erika, 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Clevedon, UK ; Buffalo [N.Y.] : Multilingual Matters, ©2006.
Series:Child language and child development ; 7.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Erika Hoff and Peggy McCardle
  • Bilingual speech processing in infants and adults / Janet F. Werker, Whitney M. Weikum, and Katherine A. Yoshida
  • When infants hear two languages : interpreting research on early speech perception by bilingual children / Anne Fernald
  • The onset of word form recognition in one language and in two / M.M. Vihman [and others]
  • Bilingual first language acquisition in perspective / Fred Genesee
  • Social factors in bilingual development : the Miami experience / Rebecca E. Eilers, Barbara Zurer Pearson, Alan B. Cobo-Lewis
  • Developing literacy in English-language learners : an examination of the impact of English-only versus bilingual instruction / Diane August [and others]
  • Bilingualism at school : effect on the acquisition of literacy / Ellen Bialystok
  • Adult bilingualism and bilingual development / Judith Kroll
  • Finding the points of contact : language acquisition in children raised in monolingual, bilingual, and multilingual environment / Sandra Waxman
  • Multiple perspectives on research on childhood bilingualism / Martha Crago
  • An agenda for research on childhood bilingualism / Peggy McCardle and Erika Hoff.