TY - BOOK ID - 7080449 TI - Bilingual First Language Acquisition PY - 2009 SN - 9781847691484 9781847691491 1847691498 184769148X 9781847691507 1847691501 9781847696281 1847696287 PB - Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters, DB - UniCat KW - Language acquisition KW - Bilingualism KW - Bilingualism. KW - Language acquisition. KW - Taalverwerving KW - Tweetaligheid bij kinderen KW - kinderen KW - #KVHB:Tweetaligheid KW - #KVHB:Taalontwikkeling KW - Tweetaligheid bij kinderen. KW - kinderen. KW - Kinderen. KW - Acquisition of language KW - Developmental linguistics KW - Developmental psycholinguistics KW - Language and languages KW - Language development in children KW - Psycholinguistics, Developmental KW - Interpersonal communication in children KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Languages in contact KW - Multilingualism KW - Acquisition KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7080449 AB - Increasingly, children grow up hearing two languages from birth. This comprehensive textbook explains how children learn to understand and speak those languages. It brings together both established knowledge and the latest findings about different areas of bilingual language development. It also includes new analyses of previously published materials. The book describes how bilingually raised children learn to understand and use sounds, words and sentences in two languages. A recurrent theme is the large degree of variation between bilingual children. This variation in how children develop bilingually reflects the variation in their language learning environments. Positive attitudes from the people in bilingual children's language learning environments and their recognition that child bilingualism is not monolingualism-times-two are the main ingredients ensuring that children grow up to be happy and expert speakers of two languages. ER -