APortrait of the Young in the New Multilingual Spain / / ed. by Carmen Pérez-Vidal, Maria Juan-Garau, Aurora Bel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Badia, Iris,; Barnes, Julia,; Barreña, Andoni,; Bel, Aurora,; Ezeizabarrena, Ma José,; Fuertes, Raquel Fernández,; García, Ana Llinares,; García, Iñaki,; Gràcia, Lluïsa,; Juan-Garau, Maria,; Liceras, Juana M.,; Mangado, Junkal Gutierrez,; Mayo, María del Pilar García,; Mora, Joan C.,; Perpiñá, Laia,; Pérez-Pereira, Migue,; Pérez-Tattam, Rocío,; Pérez-Vidal, Carmen,; Sanz, Cristina,; Sanz-Torrent, Mònica,; Serra, Miquel,; Serrat, Elisabet,; Siguan, Miquel,; Álvarez, Esther,
• HerausgeberIn: Bel, Aurora,; Juan-Garau, Maria,; Pérez-Vidal, Carmen,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Child Language and Child Development
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; The Contributors --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; Prologue --; Chapter 1. Issues in the Acquisition of Two or More Languages in Multilingual Environments --; Part 1: The Early Acquisition of Two or More Languages Within the Family Context --; Chapter 2. Early Galician/Spanish Bilingualism: Contrasts with Monolingualism --; Chapter 3. Early Trilingualism: The Development of Communicative Competence in English Alongside Basque and Spanish --; Chapter 4. Influence of the Linguistic Environment on the Development of the Lexicon and Grammar of Basque Bilingual Children --; Chapter 5. Null and Overt Subjects in the Developing Grammars (L1 English/ L1 Spanish) of Two Bilingual Twins --; Chapter 6. Contributions from Bilingual Specific Language Impairment in Catalan and Spanish to the Understanding of Typical and Pathological Language Acquisition --; Chapter 7. The Simultaneous Development of Narratives in English and Spanish --; Part 2: Bilingual and Multilingual Acquisition at Later Ages and in Instructional Settings --; Chapter 8. Classroom Bilingualism at an Early Age: Towards a More Natural EFL Context --; Chapter 9. First Language Influence on Second Language Acquisition: The Case of Immigrant L1 Soninke, Tagalog and Chinese Children Learning Catalan --; Chapter 10. Predicting Enhanced L3 Learning in Bilingual Contexts: The Role of Biliteracy --; Chapter 11. Learning Context Effects on the Acquisition of a Second Language Phonology --; Chapter 12. Non-Adult Long-Distance wh- Questions in the Non-Native Acquisition of English --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781847690241; 9783111024738; 9783110663136; 9783110606713
• DOI: 10.21832/9781847690241
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Carmen Pérez-Vidal, Maria Juan-Garau, Aurora Bel.

The view that a bilingual speaker, or a speaker acquiring more than one language, is the sum of two —or more— monolinguals is proving to be a myth rather than a reality. Accordingly, this book provides a new profile of children and young people becoming bilingual or multilingual in today’s multicultural Spain. The chapters present studies on the acquisition of the four official languages plus the languages of several new communities. They include descriptive, functional, pragmatic and formal perspectives, covering phonetics, lexis, morphology and syntax, as well as code mixing and input, bilingual twins, SLI bilingualism, narratives, literacy, age and stay abroad effects. The book should be of interest to graduate students and researchers working in the field of second and foreign language acquisition and multilingualism, language planners, language teachers and families alike.