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This book sets a high standard for rigor and scientific approach to the study of bilingualism and provides new insights regarding the critical issues of theory and practice, including the interdependence of linguistic knowledge in bilinguals, the role of socioeconomic status, the effect of different language usage patterns in the home, and the role of schooling by single-language immersion as opposed to systematic training in both home and target languages. The rich landscape of outcomes reported in the volume will provide a frame for interpretation and understanding of effects of bilingualism for years to come.

Bilingualism in children. --- Children --- Language development in children --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Language and languages --- Language. --- Vocabulary --- Bilingualism in children --- Language --- Children - Language --- Bilingual children. --- Bilingual education. --- Bilingualism. --- Biliteracy. --- Cultural assimilation. --- English. --- Monolingualism. --- Morphosyntactics. --- Multilingualism. --- Narrative competence. --- Spanish. --- Standardized tests.

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The second edition of Sound Practice looks afresh at how young children can be helped to discover basic facts about an alphabetic spelling system, within the context of their developing spoken language. It examines why children might fail to understand letter-sound links; the origins of severe and persistent difficulties with achieving functional literacy skills; and developmental processes underpinning the areas of learning identified in national initiatives for promoting children's learning. The book also discusses the need for differentiation strategies to respond to individual children'

Children --- Phonological awareness in children. --- Phonetics. --- Articulatory phonetics --- Orthoepy --- Phonology --- Linguistics --- Speech --- Language development in children --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Language and languages --- Language acquisition --- Language. --- Vocabulary --- Language --- Language awareness. --- Linguistic awareness --- Metalinguistic knowledge --- Awareness --- Psycholinguistics

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This is a study of how children acquire language and how this affects language change over generations. Written by an international team of experts, the volume proceeds from the basis that we can not only address the language faculty per se within the framework of evolutionary theory, but also the origins and subsequent development of languages themselves; languages evolve via cultural rather than biological transmission on a historical rather than genetic timescale. The book is distinctive in utilizing computational simulation and modelling to help ensure the theories constructed are complete and precise. Drawing on a wide range of examples, the book covers the why and how of specific syntactic universals; the nature of syntactic change; the language-learning mechanisms required to acquire an existing linguistic system accurately and to impose further structure on an emerging system; and the evolution of language(s) in relation to this learning mechanism.

Language acquisition. --- Anthropological linguistics. --- Evolution. --- Philosophy --- Creation --- Emergence (Philosophy) --- Teleology --- Anthropo-linguistics --- Ethnolinguistics --- Language and ethnicity --- Linguistic anthropology --- Linguistics and anthropology --- Anthropology --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Acquisition of language --- Developmental linguistics --- Developmental psycholinguistics --- Language and languages --- Language development in children --- Psycholinguistics, Developmental --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Psycholinguistics --- Acquisition --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Evolution. Phylogeny

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The purpose of this volume is to present recent research in the field of the acquisition of functional literacy and its precursors. The volume aims to capture the state of the art in this rapidly expanding field. An attempt is made to clarify the vague and often inconsistent definitions of functional literacy from the perspective of development. Cognitive, linguistic, educational, and social factors of literacy development are all taken into account. The volume consists of three subsequent parts. The first part goes into phonological precursors of literacy development. In this part the focus is on the development of early language precursors of of reading and writing. The cultural foundations of these precursors are explored, and their links with reading development are dealt with in detail. Different psycholinguistic approaches are also proposed to explain the occurrence of literacy problems. In the second part, the scope is on the constraints of reading and writing efficiency at the word level and beyond. The acquisition of reading and writing is seen as a result from the interaction between phonological, orthographic, and semantic processes. A crosslinguistic perspective is taken on the role of writing system factors in the acquisition of literacy skills. The final part deals with the role of social and educational factors in literacy acquisition. Starting from a crosscultural perspective, the central issue is how the attainment of functional literacy is dependent on sociocultural variation. The predictors of more advanced levels of literacy development are considered, including foreign language literacy and adult literacy.

Language acquisition --- Literacy --- Language awareness in children --- Philology & Linguistics --- Languages & Literatures --- Children --- Illiteracy --- Education --- General education --- Acquisition of language --- Developmental linguistics --- Developmental psycholinguistics --- Language and languages --- Language development in children --- Psycholinguistics, Developmental --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Psycholinguistics --- Language --- Acquisition --- Language acquisition. --- Literacy. --- Language awareness in children.

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This study investigates the acquisition of Functional Categories (e.g., INFL (AGR, TNS), DET, COMP) from the perspective of self-organization in generative grammar. Language is conceived of as a dynamical system which evolves in time and bifurcates when critical thresholds are reached. The emergence of syntax as evidenced by the acquisition of Functional Categories is the major bifurcation in child language acquisition. Target values of syntactic parameters are attractors which children approach on individual trajectories. A proposed tripartite scenario of change - from a simple stable state A, via symmetry-breaking in a liminal phase B characterized by variation, to a new complex stable state C - accounts for the dynamics in early grammatical development. Traditional generative issues, such as the acquisition of case-marking, finiteness, V2, and wh-questions, are discussed as well as new issues, such as functional neologisms, and sentential blends. Dynamical notions like precursor, oscillation, symmetry-breaking, and trigger are important explanatory tools. The growing child phrase marker is a fractal mental object which represents syntactic information by way of self-similar extended projections. The book addresses researchers in language acquisition from various theoretical camps: generative, functional, connectionist, by giving new answers to old questions in the light of a novel challenging theory: self-organization.

Acquisition du langage --- Acquisition of language --- Auto-organisation (Théorie des systèmes) --- Fonctionalisme (Linguistique) --- Functionalism (Linguistics) --- Functionalisme (Taalwetenschap) --- Langage [Acquisition du ] --- Language acquisition --- Language development in children --- Learning systems (Automatic control) --- Self-optimizing systems --- Self-organizing systems --- Systèmes auto-optimalisants --- Systèmes auto-organisés --- Systèmes d'apprentissage (Commande automatique) --- Taalverwerving --- Zelfregelende systemen --- Language acquisition. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Language and languages --- Syntax --- Developmental linguistics --- Developmental psycholinguistics --- Psycholinguistics, Developmental --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Psycholinguistics --- Syntax. --- Acquisition --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax