McCardle / Hoff Childhood Bilingualism

Research on Infancy through School Age
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-85359-871-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: Child Language and Child Development

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McCardle, Peggy

Hoff, Erika

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Childhood Bilingualism Research: An Introduction - Erika Hoff and Peggy McCardle
Processing Two Languages
1. Bilingual Speech Processing - J. F. Werker, W. M. Weikum, and K. A. Yoshida
2. When Infants Hear Two Languages: Interpreting Research on Early Speech Perception by Bilingual Children - A. Fernald
3. The Onset of Word Form Recognition in One Language and in Two - M. M. Vihman, J. A. G. Lum, G. Thierry, S. Nakai and T. Keren-Portnoy
Speaking Two Languages
4. Bilingual First Language Acquisition in Perspective - F. Genesee
5. Social Factors in Bilingual Development - R. E. Eilers, B. Zurer Pearson, A. B. Cobo-Lewis
Acquiring Literacy in Two Languages
6. Developing Literacy in English-Language Learners - D. August, M. Calderon, Maria Carlo, and M. Nuttall
7. Bilingualism at School - E. Bialystok
Perspectives on Childhood Bilingualism from Related Fields
8. Adult Bilingualism and Bilingual Development - J. Kroll
9. Finding the Points of Contact: Language Acquisition in Children Raised in Monolingual, Bilingual and Multilingual Environment - S. Waxman
Closing Comments
10. Multiple Perspectives on Research on Childhood Bilingualism - M. Crago
11. An Agenda for Research on Childhood Bilingualism - Peggy McCardle and Erika Hoff

Über Autor(innen)

McCardle Peggy:
Peggy McCardle is a research administrator at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, a pre-eminent funding agency of biomedical and behavioural research. She is responsible for a research portfolio on language, bilingualism and biliteracy development and disorders within the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.Hoff Erika:
Erika Hoff is a professor of psychology at Florida Atlantic University, in Davie, Florida. She studies language development and bilingualism.Peggy McCardle is a research administrator at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, a pre-eminent funding agency of biomedical and behavioural research. She is responsible for a research portfolio on language, bilingualism and biliteracy development and disorders within the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Erika Hoff is a professor of psychology at Florida Atlantic University, in Davie, Florida. She studies language development and bilingualism.