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, su...

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