The bilingual child : early development and language contact / Virginia Yip, Stephen Matthews.
How does a child become bilingual? Drawing on new studies of children exposed to two languages from birth, this book demonstrates how childhood bilingualism develops naturally in response to the two languages in the children's environment.
Saved in:
| Online Access: |
Full Text (via Cambridge) |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
©2007 |
| Series: | Cambridge approaches to language contact.
|
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Theoretical framework
- Methodology
- Wh-interrogatives: to move or not to move?
- Null objects: dual input and learnability
- Relative clauses: transfer and universals
- Vulnerable domains in Cantonese and the directionality of transfer
- Bilingual development and contact-induced grammaticalization
- Conclusions and implications.