Childhood Bilingualism : : Research on Infancy through School Age / / ed. by Peggy McCardle, Erika Hoff.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: August, Diane,; Bialystok, Ellen,; Calderón, Margarita,; Carlo, María,; Cobo-Lewis, Alan B.,; Crago, Martha,; Eilers, Rebecca E.,; Fernald, Anne,; Genesee, Fred,; Hoff, Erika,; Keren-Portnoy, T.,; Kroll, Judith F.,; Lum, J.A.G.,; McCardle, Peggy,; Nakai, S.,; Nuttall, Michelle,; Pearson, Barbara Zurer,; Thierry, G.,; Vihman, M.M.,; Waxman, Sandra,; Weikum, Whitney M.,; Werker, Janet F.,; Yoshida, Katherine A.,
• HerausgeberIn: Hoff, Erika,; McCardle, Peggy,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Child Language and Child Development
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (184 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Part 1: Processing Two Languages --; Chapter 1. Bilingual Speech Processing in Infants and Adults --; Chapter 2. When Infants Hear Two Languages: Interpreting Research on Early Speech Perception by Bilingual Children --; Chapter 3. The Onset of Word Form Recognition in One Language and in Two --; Part 2: Learning Two Languages --; Chapter 4. Bilingual First Language Acquisition in Perspective --; Chapter 5. Social Factors in Bilingual Development: The Miami Experience --; Part 3: Literacy in Two Languages --; Chapter 6. Developing Literacy in English-language Learners: An Examination of the Impact of English-only Versus Bilingual Instruction --; Chapter 7. Bilingualism at School: Effect on the Acquisition of Literacy --; Part 4: Perspectives on Childhood Bilingualism from Related Fields --; Chapter 8. Adult Bilingualism and Bilingual Development --; Chapter 9 Finding the Points of Contact: Language Acquisition in Children Raised in Monolingual, Bilingual and Multilingual Environments --; Part 5: Closing Comments --; Chapter 10. Multiple Perspectives on Research on Childhood Bilingualism --; Chapter 11. An Agenda for Research on Childhood Bilingualism --; The Contributors
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781853598715; 9783111024738; 9783110663136; 9783110606713
• DOI: 10.21832/9781853598715
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Peggy McCardle, Erika Hoff.

This book contains reports of research on bilingualism in infants and children as well as perspectives from those involved in cross-linguistic research on language development, literacy development in bilingual children, and psycholinguistic research on bilingualism in adults. It offers a fresh multidisciplinary perspective and next steps for research on childhood bilingualism.