The Bilingual Child: Early Development and Language Contact

by Virginia Yip and Stephen Matthews

Book Overview

How does a child become bilingual? The answer to this intriguing question remains largely a mystery, not least because it has been far less extensively researched than the process of mastering a first language. Drawing on new studies of children exposed to two languages from birth (English and Cantonese), this book demonstrates how childhood bilingualism develops naturally in response to the two languages in the children's environment. While each...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521544769
• ISBN13: 9780521544764
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 8.9"