An Introduction to Bilingual Development /

An Introduction to Bilingual Development / / Annick De Houwer.

Increasingly, children grow up hearing two languages from birth. This introductory textbook shows how children learn to understand and speak those languages against the backdrop of their language learning environments. A narrative around the bilingual development of four young children with differen...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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De Houwer, Annick,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:MM Textbooks
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Some technical notes about this book
  • 1: Introducing the fancy term for bilingual development: Bilingual First Language Acquisition
  • 2: From birth to the comprehension of words
  • 3: Saying words and starting to combine them
  • 4: Making sentences
  • 5: Preschool and beyond
  • 6: In conclusion: Bilingual learning in context
  • Glossary
  • Bibiliography
  • Index of the 4 BFLA children and their families
  • Subject index

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