Bilingual language acquisition : Spanish and English in the first six years

The Resource Bilingual language acquisition : Spanish and English in the first six years
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Bilingual language acquisition : Spanish and English in the first six years
Title remainder
Spanish and English in the first six years
Statement of responsibility
Carmen Silva-Corvalán, University of Southern California
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Subject
Language
eng
Summary
How do children develop bilingual competence? Do bilingual children develop language in the same way as monolinguals? Set in the context of findings on language development, this book examines the acquisition of English and Spanish by two brothers in the first six years of their lives. Based on in-depth and meticulous analyses of naturalistic data, it explores how the systems of both languages affect each other as the children develop, and how different levels of exposure to each language influence the nature of acquisition. The author demonstrates that the children's grammars and lexicons follow a developmental path similar to that of monolinguals, but that cross-linguistic interactions affecting lexical, semantic and discourse-pragmatic aspects arise in Spanish when exposure to it diminishes around the age of four. The first of its kind, this original study is a must-read for students and researchers in bilingualism, child development, language acquisition and language contact
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Cataloging source
UkCbUP
Dewey number
460/.4221
Index
index present
LC call number
P118
LC item number
.S4576 2014
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Series statement
Cambridge approaches to language contact
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