Crosslinguistic Encounters in Language Acquisition : : Typical and Atypical Development / / ed. by Elena Babatsouli, David Ingram, Nicole Müller.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Andreou, Georgia,; Babatsouli, Elena,; Bernhardt, Barbara May,; Danvers, Emily,; Dodd, Barbara,; Esterhuizen, Natania,; Fabra, Lucrecia Rallo,; Floros, Georgios,; Franklin, Sue,; Grech, Helen,; Grohmann, Kleanthes K.,; Ingram, David,; Jager, Aimée de,; Kambanaros, Maria,; Mahura, Olebeng,; Merwe, Amy van der,; Müller, Nicole,; Naidoo, Chané,; Pascoe, Michelle,; Reynders, Juliette,; Roux, Jane Le,; Ruiz, Mª Isabel Navarro,; Senior, Savannah,; Shooshtaryzadeh, Froogh,; Sosa, Anna V.,; Sotiropoulos, Dimitrios,; Stemberger, Joseph Paul,; Tasioudi, Matina,; Taxitari, Loukia,; Theodorou, Eleni,; Varnava, Marina,
• HerausgeberIn: Babatsouli, Elena,; Ingram, David,; Müller, Nicole,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Communication Disorders Across Languages
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

This book presents diverse, original research studies on typical and atypical child language acquisition in monolingual, bilingual and bi-dialectal settings, with a focus on development, assessment and research methodology. Languages investigated in the studies include underrepresented languages, such as Farsi, Greek, Icelandic, isiXhosa, Maltese, Mandarin and Slovene, without excluding representative work in major languages like English and Spanish. The language areas of focus are phonology, lexicon, morphology and syntax and the book incorporates studies in under-researched language impairment, such as Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome and language impairment in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome. The book has practical significance in that it proposes tools and assessment practices that are of universal crosslinguistic relevance while also dealing with language-specific complications. The studies presented enhance existing knowledge and stimulate answers on what the acquisition of disparate languages in different contexts can teach us about language/communication development in the presence or absence of disorder.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures and Tables -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1: Typical Language Acquisition -- 1. Speech Development in Three-year-old Children Acquiring isiXhosa and English in South Africa -- 2. The Impact of Parent Communication Patterns on Infant Volubility during Play with Books -- Part 2: Methods in Language Analysis and Assessment -- 3. On the Weight of Phones in Computing Phonological Word Proximity -- 4. Investigating Typical and Protracted Phonological Development across Languages -- 5. Bilingual Speech Assessment for Maltese Children -- 6. Early Language Development in a Bilectal Context: The Cypriot Adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates CDI -- Part 3: Language Acquisition in the Presence of a Disorder -- 7. Obstructive Sleep Apnoea Syndrome: Does It Really Affect Language Acquisition during Early Childhood? -- 8. Language Impairment in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome: A Case Study from Cyprus -- 9. The Emergence and Development of Self-repair: A Longitudinal Case Study of Specifi c Language Impairment from 3;0 to 6;10 Years -- 10. Local Assimilation in Children Acquiring Farsi: A Study of Typical versus Atypical Phonological Development -- Afterword -- Index