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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Madalena Cruz-FerreiraPublisher: Channel View Publications Ltd Imprint: Multilingual Matters Volume: No. 6 Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.674kg ISBN: 9781853598388ISBN 10: 1853598380 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 11 January 2006 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Preview Part I. Becoming multilingual 2. Issues in bilingualism and bilingual acquisition; 3. The children; 4. Data collection and analytical choices; 5. Speaking languages, and talking about them; Part II. Making sense of Portuguese 6. Shaping sound; 7. Probing for constituency; 8. Probing for meaning Part III. Acquiring a third language 9. A new language: intruder or guest?; 10. Language input and language management in a multilingual environment; 11. Balancing culture and identity; 12. Overview References/ IndexReviewsCruz-Ferreira's book provides insight into the strategies that young children develop to guide their own acquisitional processes. This book provides further support for the view of language as a 'resource' or tool and multilingualism as an opportune site for the study of the acquisition and use of that communicative resource.Lyn Wright Fogle, Georgetown University, in Language and Education 21:2This book gives an insightful and entertaining overview of three siblings developing language ability in a multilingual environment where Portuguese, Swedish and English are spoken. This book constitutes a valuable contribution to the study of multilingualism and child language and development. The data are well presented, the book is written clearly and there is an excellent use of up-to-date references. Parents, teachers, students and researchers can all take something useful from this book.Emanuel da Silva, University of Toronto, Linguist List 17.3169Against a detailed canvas of linguistic and sociolinguistic theory, Cruz-Ferreira paints a compelling and entertaining vision of how her three children became fully competent in English, Swedish, and Portuguese. .. The book is rich in insights about multilingualism, prosodic development, word learning, personal identity, and the awareness of linguistic differences and national character. Brian MacWhinney, Professor of Psychology and Modern Languages, Carnegie Mellon UniversityAn eminently sensible and pragmatic discussion of all the major issues in language acquisition, bilingualism, and the parallel development of language and culture, presented with a mass of pertinent examples. There could be no better evidence than this that children brought up multilingually have a huge advantage in life. And all in a beautifully written book. Alan Cruttenden, Emeritus Professor of Phonetics, University of Manchester Fellow of the Phonetics Laboratory, University of Oxford Cruz-Ferreira's book provides insight into the strategies that young children develop to guide their own acquisitional processes. This book provides further support for the view of language as a 'resource' or tool and multilingualism as an opportune site for the study of the acquisition and use of that communicative resource. Lyn Wright Fogle, Georgetown University, in Language and Education 21:2 This book gives an insightful and entertaining overview of three siblings developing language ability in a multilingual environment where Portuguese, Swedish and English are spoken. This book constitutes a valuable contribution to the study of multilingualism and child language and development. The data are well presented, the book is written clearly and there is an excellent use of up-to-date references. Parents, teachers, students and researchers can all take something useful from this book. Emanuel da Silva, University of Toronto, Linguist List 17.3169 Against a detailed canvas of linguistic and sociolinguistic theory, Cruz-Ferreira paints a compelling and entertaining vision of how her three children became fully competent in English, Swedish, and Portuguese. .. The book is rich in insights about multilingualism, prosodic development, word learning, personal identity, and the awareness of linguistic differences and national character. Brian MacWhinney, Professor of Psychology and Modern Languages, Carnegie Mellon University An eminently sensible and pragmatic discussion of all the major issues in language acquisition, bilingualism, and the parallel development of language and culture, presented with a mass of pertinent examples. There could be no better evidence than this that children brought up multilingually have a huge advantage in life. And all in a beautifully written book. Alan Cruttenden, Emeritus Professor of Phonetics, University of Manchester Fellow of the Phonetics Laboratory, University of Oxford Author InformationMadalena Cruz-Ferreira hails from Portugal and received postgraduate degrees in linguistics from the University of Manchester, UK. Her main research interests are child multilingualism, multilingual phonology and intonation, and the language of science. Recent publications include a book on the language of linguistics (2003, Prentice Hall), articles and book chapters on child prosody and multilingualism, foreign intonational accent and Portuguese phonology and intonation. She has lived in Singapore for over 10 years with her Swedish husband and their three trilingual children. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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