Multilingualism from Infancy to Adolescence

This book studies the acquisition, loss and re-acquisition of Spanish, English, Portuguese, and Hebrew, the first languages of this writers son. It applies the results of current work in the areas of psycholinguistics, bilingualism, and applied linguistics to the study of language development in one multilingual child, Noam, from birth to age 17. The acquisition, loss, and re-acquisition of four languages by Noam also is compared with that of other children studied by the author and others. This book uncovers linguistic, cognitive, psychological, and social mechanisms of language acquisition, loss, and re-acquisition and documents the childs increasing, decreasing, and, in turn, increasing proficiency in four languages. This book applies Dromis guidelines for qualitative case-study research to the study of language development in one multilingual child (Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew, English), Noam, from birth to age seventeen. In addition, the results of Noams case study are compared with other case studies conducted by this author as well as by other researchers.

Product details

• Authors: Eduardo D. Faingold, Eduardo D. Dr Faingold
• Assisted by: Eduardo D. Faingold (Editor)
• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2004
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 386 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics