"This book presents diverse, original research studies on typical and atypical child language acquisition in monolingual, bilingual and bi-dialectal settings, with a focus on development, assessment and research methodology. It will be of interest to...
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"This book presents diverse, original research studies on typical and atypical child language acquisition in monolingual, bilingual and bi-dialectal settings, with a focus on development, assessment and research methodology. It will be of interest to researchers, clinical linguists, language pathologists and graduate students"-- Speech development in 3-year-old children acquiring Isixhosa and English in South Africa -- The impact of parent communication patterns on infant volubility during play with books -- On the weight of phones in computing phonological word proximity -- Investigating typical and protracted phonological development across languages -- Bilingual speech assessment for Maltese children -- Early language development in a bilectal context: the cypriot adaptation of the MacArthur Bates CDI -- Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome: does it really affect language acquisition during early childhood? -- Language impairment in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome: a case study from Cyprus -- The emergence and development of self-repair: a longitudinal case study of specific language impairment from 3 to 6;10 years -- Local assimilation in children acquiring Farsi: a case study of typical vs. atypical phonological development
