This is the first book-length study of phonological development and impairment of Chinese-speaking children. It provides the first normative data on this population, which will be of value to speech and language therapists and other professionals. It also advances the notion of ‘phonological saliency’ which explains the cross-linguistic similarities and differences in children’s phonological development.
Table of Content
Preface
Acknowledgements
Conventions on Transcriptions
1 Language Universals and Cross-linguistic Studies of Phonological Acquisition
2 Putonghua Phonology
3 Phonological Acquisition of Normally Developing Children: I: Cross-sectional Study
4 Phonological Acquisition of Normally Developing Children: II: Longitudinal Study
5 The Phonological Systems of Putonghua-speaking Children with Functional Speech Disorders
6 Development and Change in the Phonology of Putonghua-speaking Children with Functional Speech Disorders
7 The Phonological Systems of a Set of Putonghua-speaking Twins
8 Phonological Development of a Putonghua-speaking Child with Prelingual Hearing Impairment: A Longitudinal Case Study
9 General Discussion and Conclusion
References
Appendices
Index
About the author
Zhu Hua is Chair of Educational Linguistics and Director of the Mosaic Group for Research on Multilingualism, University of Birmingham. She is Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, the UK. Her main research interests span across multilingual and intercultural communication and child language.
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