Date: 27-Sep-2007 From: Daniel Davies <ddaviescambridge.org> Subject: The Bilingual Child: Yip, Matthews E-mail this message to a friend
Title: The Bilingual Child
Subtitle: Early Development and Language Contact
Series Title: Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
Published: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
http://us.cambridge.org
Author: Virginia Yip
Author: Stephen Matthews
Hardback: ISBN: 9780521836173 Pages: 320 Price: U.S. $ 85.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9780521544764 Pages: 320 Price: U.S. $ 29.99
Abstract:
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.
1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical framework; 3. Methodology; 4. Wh-interrogatives: to move or not to move?; 5. Null objects: dual input and learnability; 6. Relative clauses: transfer and universals; 7. Vulnerable domains and the directionality of transfer; 8. Bilingual development and contact-induced grammaticalization; 9. Conclusions.
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