The Acquisition of Two Languages from Birth

A Case Study

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Annick De Houwer

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Cambridge Studies in Linguistics

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This book deals with the question of how children exposed to two languages simultaneously from birth learn to speak those two languages. After a critical and comprehensive survey of most of the literature on the subject, the author concludes that empirically well-documented knowledge in this area is very scant indeed. The core of the book concerns a naturalistic study of a Dutch-English bilingual girl around the age of three. The study's main aim is to explore the nature of early bilingual morphosyntactic development. Detailed analyses of most aspects of this development show that a child who hears two separate languages spoken to her reflects this distinctness in the utterances she produces: each language is handled as a system in its own right. Furthermore, the young bilingual three year old greatly resembles her monolingual peers in either language. Both these findings, the author concludes, highlight the language-specific nature of the morphosyntactic development process. This book will interest linguists, psycholinguists, developmental psychologists, and child language specialists.

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June 29th, 1990

Author

Annick De Houwer

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

408

Series

Cambridge Studies in Linguistics

Dimensions

159x236x34

ISBN-13

9780521366526

Product ID

2018526

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