LINGUIST List 13.1274

Tue May 7 2002

Books: Phonological Development in Specific Contexts

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1. kathryn, Phonological Development in Specific Contexts by Zhu Hua

Title: Phonological Development in Specific Contexts
Subtitle: Studies of Chinese-Speaking children
Series Title: Child Language & Child Development
						
Publication Year: 2002
			
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
			
Book URL: http://www.multilingual-matters.com
			
 
Author: Zhu Hua				

Hardback: ISBN: 1853595888, Pages: 220, Price: £59.95/ US$89.95 / CAN$119.95
Paperback: ISBN: 185359587x, Pages: 220, Price: £24.95 / US$39.95 / CAN$49.95

			
PHONOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT IN SPECIFIC CONTEXTS
Studies of Chinese-speaking Children by Zhu Hua, (University of
Newcastle)
The book is a major contribution to the cross-linguistic study of
language acquisition in general and a milestone in the study of the
acquisition of Chinese. Professor N. V. Smith, Phonetics and
Linguistics, University College London

Key Features
The first book-length study of phonological development and impairment of 
Chinese-speaking children
The data in it will be of value to speech and language therapists and other
professionals

Description

This book contains a series of studies of phonological acquisition and
development of children in specific contexts:i) linguistic context:
Putonghua or Modern Standard Chinese ii) developmental contexts:
normally developing children, children with speech disorders, children
with hearing impairment, and twins.

This is the first book-length study of phonological development and
impairment of Chinese-speaking children. It provides the first
normative data on this population, which will be of value to speech
and language therapists and other professionals. It also advances the
notion of "phonological saliency" which explains the cross-linguistic
similarities and differences in children's phonological development.

Contents
Introduction
1. Developmental universals and cross-linguistic studies of phonological
acquisition
2. Putonghua phonology
3. Phonological acquisition of normally developing children 

I: cross-sectional study
4. Phonological acquisition of normally developing children

II: longitudinal study
5. The phonological systems of Putonghua-speaking children with functional 
speech disorders
6. Development and change in the phonology of Putonghua-speaking children 
with functional speech disorders
7. The phonological systems of a set of Putonghua-speaking twins
8. Phonological development of a Putonghua-speaking child with prelingual 
hearing impairment
9. General discussion and conclusion

Author information

Zhu Hua obtained a PhD from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne
where she is currently a Research Fellow in the Department of Speech
studied. She is also a qualified translator-interpreter and
teacher. Since 1996, she has been involved in a number of research
projects on language acquisition and disorders. She has published
extensively on child language (Journal of Child Language, Clinical
Linguistics & Phonetics, International Journal of Language &
Communication Disorders) and cross-cultural pragmatics (Journal of
Pragmatics, Multilingua).

Child Language and Child Development 3 
Format: 210 x 148mm xii + 220pp May 2002
Hbk ISBN 1-85359-588-8 £59.95/ US$89.95 / CAN$119.95
Pbk ISBN 1-85359-587-x £24.95 / US$39.95 / CAN$49.95
			
Lingfield(s): Phonology 

Written In: English