This book contains reports of research on bilingualism in infants and children as well as perspectives from those involved in cross-linguistic research on language development, literacy development in bilingual children, and psycholinguistic research on bilingualism in adults. It offers a fresh multidisciplinary perspective and next steps for research on childhood bilingualism.
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Childhood Bilingualism Research: An Introduction — Erika Hoff and Peggy Mc Cardle
Processing Two Languages
1. Bilingual Speech Processing — J. F. Werker, W. M. Weikum, and K. A. Yoshida
2. When Infants Hear Two Languages: Interpreting Research on Early Speech Perception by Bilingual Children — A. Fernald
3. The Onset of Word Form Recognition in One Language and in Two — M. M. Vihman, J. A. G. Lum, G. Thierry, S. Nakai and T. Keren-Portnoy
Speaking Two Languages
4. Bilingual First Language Acquisition in Perspective — F. Genesee
5. Social Factors in Bilingual Development — R. E. Eilers, B. Zurer Pearson, A. B. Cobo-Lewis
Acquiring Literacy in Two Languages
6. Developing Literacy in English-Language Learners — D. August, M. Calderon, Maria Carlo, and M. Nuttall
7. Bilingualism at School — E. Bialystok
Perspectives on Childhood Bilingualism from Related Fields
8. Adult Bilingualism and Bilingual Development — J. Kroll
9. Finding the Points of Contact: Language Acquisition in Children Raised in Monolingual, Bilingual and Multilingual Environment — S. Waxman
Closing Comments
10. Multiple Perspectives on Research on Childhood Bilingualism — M. Crago
11. An Agenda for Research on Childhood Bilingualism — Peggy Mc Cardle and Erika Hoff
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Erika Hoff is a professor of psychology at Florida Atlantic University, in Davie, Florida. She studies language development and bilingualism.