Date: 14-Nov-2007 From: Kathryn King <marketingmultilingual-matters.com> Subject: A Portrait of the Young in the New Multilingual Spain: Perez-Vidal, Juan-Garau, Bel (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: A Portrait of the Young in the New Multilingual Spain
Series Title: Child Language and Child Development
Published: 2007
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
This book examines the main issues in bilingual and multilingual language acquisition through children and youngsters growing up in today's multicultural Spain, where four official languages and other new languages are used. The studies cover phonetics, grammar and pragmatics, code mixing, parental strategies, bilingual twins, SLI bilingualism, literacy and stay abroad effects, both in natural and formal instruction contexts.
Linguistic Field(s):
Language Acquisition
Phonetics
Pragmatics
Sociolinguistics