Risk and Protective Environmental Factors for Early Bilingual Language Acquisition

ISBN-13: 9781138544499 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 124 str.

Daniela R. Gatt; Ciara O'Toole

Opis

This book documents the expressive vocabularies of bilingual children aged 16-45 months who were exposed to different language pairs and bilingual contexts, and investigates the risk and protective effects of various environmental factors in language development. It originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.

Spis treści

Introduction: Risk and protective environmental factors for early bilingual language acquisition  1. Parent report of early lexical production in bilingual children: a cross-linguistic CDI comparison  2. Bilingual language acquisition in a minority context: using the Irish–English Communicative Development Inventory to track acquisition of an endangered language  3. Bilingual vocabulary production in young children receiving Maltese-dominant exposure: individual differences and the influence of demographic and language exposure factors  4. The impact of a fi rst-generation immigrant environment on the heritage language: productive vocabularies of Polish toddlers living in the UK and Ireland  5. A CDI study of bilingual English-Hebrew children – frequency of exposure as a major source of variation   6. The relationship between fi rst language (L1) and second language (L2) lexical development in young Turkish-German children

O autorze

Daniela Gatt isSenior Lecturerin the Department of Communication Therapy at theUniversity of Malta. She is a speech-language pathologist and lectures on childhood communication development and disorders. Her research interests relate to the lexical development of children with and without language impairment in bilingual contexts. Ciara O'Toole is a Lecturer in Speech and Language Therapy in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences atUniversity College Cork, Ireland. She is a speech and language therapist with teaching and research interests in the area of paediatric communication development and disorders. She has particular interest in bilingual language acquisition and children who are acquiring Irish as a first/second language.