Bimodal Bilingual Acquisition of a HKSL-Cantonese Deaf Child

This book explores a type of bilingual acquisition - early sequential bimodal bilingual acquisition - in Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL) and oral Cantonese, by adopting data from a deaf child who acquired HKSL from birth and Cantonese from around age 2 after cochlear implantation. One main goal of this book is to verify if the developmental trajectories and acquisition processes such as crosslinguistic interaction resemble those documented in monolingual acquisition. The associated acquisition processes are accounted for with reference to the Language Synthesis Model (Lillo-Martin et al 2016) which is built upon the theory of Distributed Morphology.

Info autore

Jieqiong Li, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China.

Riassunto

This book explores a type of bilingual acquisition – early sequential bimodal bilingual acquisition – in Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL) and oral Cantonese, by adopting data from a deaf child who acquired HKSL from birth and Cantonese from around age 2 after cochlear implantation. One main goal of this book is to verify if the developmental trajectories and acquisition processes such as crosslinguistic interaction resemble those documented in monolingual acquisition. The associated acquisition processes are accounted for with reference to the Language Synthesis Model (Lillo-Martin et al 2016) which is built upon the theory of Distributed Morphology.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Editore: De Gruyter
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 15.03.2026
• EAN: 9783111557519
• ISBN: 978-3-11-155751-9
• Pagine: 500
• Illustrazioni: 5 b/w and 36 col. ill., 50 b/w tbl.
• Serie: Sign Languages and Deaf Communities [SLDC]
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Altre lingue / altre letterature; Spracherwerb, Kantonesisch, Linguistics, Bilingualität, Cantonese, LAN020000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, LAN009060 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, nominal structure, Gebärdensprache Hongkong, deaf child, sequential bilingual acquisition, Bimodal bilingual acquisition, Hong Kong Sign Language, bimodal-bilingual