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This book compiles original studies investigating crosslinguistic child phonological development, that is, protolanguage phonology. The chapters address topics and issues not widely reported in the literature, including research on under-represented languages, as well as information that has remained little-known to the field.
About the author
Elena Babatsouli is the Ben Blanco Memorial/BORSF Endowed Professor in Communicative Disorders and an Associate Professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA. She is Editor-in-Chief of the
Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (Equinox), Associate Editor of the
Journal of Child Language (Cambridge Core), in the Executive Committee of the
International Association for the Study of Child Language, and a referee of the European Research Council Executive Agency Consolidator Grant. Dr. Babatsouli also serves on the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's Multicultural Issues Board. Her research and scholarship focus on cross-linguistic monolingual and multilingual acquisition/use by children and adults in typical and disordered speech contexts, having published in journals, edited volumes, and encyclopedias. Among several edited/co-edited books (like
An Anthology of Bilingual Child Phonology (2020) Multilingual Matters) journal special issues, and conference proceedings, she has recently published
Multilingual Acquisition and Learning: An Ecosystemic View to Diversity (2024) for John Benjamins.
