3 Is a Crowd -Nop/048 - Acquiring Portuguese in a Trilingual Environment

The book, written by a multilingual parent, educator and linguist, describes three siblings' apportioning of linguistic and cultural space among three languages: Portuguese, Swedish and English. Parallel strategies accounting for monolingual and multilingual language management shape a truly illuminating picture of child linguistic competence.

About the author

Madalena Cruz-Ferreira hails from Portugal and received postgraduate degrees in linguistics from the University of Manchester, UK. Her main research interests are child multilingualism, multilingual phonology and intonation, and the language of science. Recent publications include a book on the language of linguistics (2003, Prentice Hall), articles and book chapters on child prosody and multilingualism, foreign intonational accent and Portuguese phonology and intonation. She has lived in Singapore for over 10 years with her Swedish husband and their three trilingual children.

Product details

• Authors: Dr Madalena Cruz-Ferreira, Madalena Cruz-Ferreira
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.01.2006
• EAN: 9781853598388
• ISBN: 978-1-85359-838-8
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 236 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 658 g
• Series: Child Language and Child Devel
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics