Phonological development and disorders in children [[electronic resource] ] : a multilingual perspective / / edited by Zhu Hua and Barbara Dodd

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450990703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Clevedon, [England] ; ; Buffalo, : Multilingual Matters, c2006
• ISBN: 1-280-50776-4; 9786610507764; 1-85359-890-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (490 p.)
• Collana: Child language and child development ; ; 8
• Altri autori (Persone): HuaZhu <1970->; DoddBarbara
• Disciplina: 401/.93
• Soggetti: Language acquisition; Language disorders in children; Grammar, Comparative and general - Phonology; Bilingualism in children; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 450-473) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1. A Multilingual Perspective on Phonological Development and Disorders -- 2. The Need for Comparable Criteria in Multilingual Studies -- 3. English Phonology: Acquisition and Disorder -- 4. Evidence from German-Speaking Children -- 5. The Normal and Disordered Phonology of Putonghua (Modern Standard Chinese)-Speaking Children -- 6. Cantonese Phonological Development: Normal and Disordered -- 7. Phonological Development of Maltese-Speaking Children -- 8. Syllabic Constraints in the Phonological Errors of Children with Pre-lingual Hearing Loss: A Perspective from Telugu -- 9. Phonological Development and Disorders: Colloquial Egyptian Arabic -- 10. Phonological Acquisition and Disorders in Turkish -- 11. Aspects of Bilingual Phonology: The Case of Spanish–English Bilingual Children -- 12. Phonological Development and Disorder of Bilingual Children Acquiring Cantonese and English -- 13. Phonological Acquisition in ; Bilingual Pakistani Heritage Children in England -- 14. Phonological Development and Disorder of Bilingual Children Acquiring Welsh and English -- 15. Phonological Acquisition by Arabic–English Bilingual Children -- 16. Phonological Development of Cantonese–Putonghua Bilingual Children -- 17. Towards Developmental Universals -- References -- Appendix -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book critically examines the effects of language specificity on phonological acquisition and disorder through a collection of empirical studies of children learning typologically very different languages. The studies address many theoretical, clinical and methodological issues, such as: What role do developmental universals and the ambient language play in language acquisition? How should one account for the similarities and differences in the phonological development between normally and atypically developing children, between monolingual and bilingual children, and between bilingual children sharing one language? What implications do these similarities and differences have for clinical assessment and diagnosis? The book provides much-needed baseline information for clinical assessment and diagnosis.