Childhood bilingualism
Subtitle: research on infancy through school age
By: edited by Peggy McCardle and Erika Hoff.
Contributors: McCardle, Peggy D.; Hoff, Erika, 1951-
Series: Child language and child development
Publisher: Multilingual Matters; Multilingual Matters Limited
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Clevedon [England]; Buffalo [NY]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9781853598708; 9781853598692; 9781853598715
Subjects: Bilingualism in children.; Language acquisition.; Literacy.
Description: Annotation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Childhood bilingualism research : an introduction; title: Erika Hoff and Peggy McCardle; title: Bilingual speech processing / Janet F. Werker, Whitney M. Weikum, and Katherine A. Yoshida; title: When infants hear two languages : interpreting research on early speech perception by bilingual children / Anne Fernald; title: The onset of word form recognition in one language and in two / M.M. Vihman ... [et al.]; title: Bilingual first language acquisition in perspective / Fred Genesee; title: Social factors in bilingual development : the Miami experience / Rebecca E. Eilers, Barbara Zurer Pearson, Alan B. Cobo-Lewis; title: Developing literacy in English-language learners : an examination of the impact of English-only versus bilingual instruction / Diane August ... [et al.]; title: Bilingualism at school : effect on the acquisition of literacy / Ellen Bialystok; title: Adult bilingualism and bilingual development / Judith Kroll; title: Finding the points of contact : language acquisition in children raised in monolingual, bilingual, and multilingual environment / Sandra Waxman; title: Multiple perspectives on research on childhood bilingualism / Martha Crago; title: An agenda for research on childhood bilingualism / Peggy McCardle and Erika Hoff.