Crosslinguistic Encounters in Language Acquisition - Typical and Atypical Development

This book presents diverse, original research studies on typical and atypical child language acquisition in monolingual, bilingual and bi-dialectal settings, with a focus on development, assessment and research methodology. It will be of interest to researchers, clinical linguists, language pathologists and graduate students.

About the author

Elena Babatsouli is Director of the Institute of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech in Chania, Greece. Her research focuses on phonology/phonetics and morphology, and her research interests include typical and atypical language acquisition (first, second, bilingual) and language use (dialects and speech errors).
David Ingram is Professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Arizona State University, USA. His research interests include language acquisition in typically developing children and children with language disorders, with a crosslinguistic focus.
Nicole Müller is Professor and Head of the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University College Cork, Ireland. Her research interests include multilingualism and neurogenic and neurodegenerative conditions leading to cognitive-communicative impairments. She is co-editor (with Martin J. Ball) of the book series Communication Disorders Across Languages.

Product details

• Assisted by: Elena Babatsouli (Editor), David Ingram (Editor), Nicole Muller (Editor), Nicole Müller (Editor)
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781783099085
• ISBN: 978-1-78309-908-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 646 g
• Series: Communication Disorders Across Languages; Communication Disorders Across; Communication Disorders Across Languages
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General