TY - BOOK AU - De Houwer,Annick TI - Bilingual First Language Acquisition T2 - MM Textbooks SN - 9781847691491 AV - P118 U1 - 401.93 22 PY - 2009///] CY - Bristol, Blue Ridge Summit : PB - Multilingual Matters, KW - Bilingualism KW - Language acquisition KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Preface --; 1: Introducing Bilingual First Language Acquisition --; 2: Bilingual children’s language development: an overview --; 3: Research methods in BFLA --; 4: Socializing environments and BLFA --; 5: Sounds in BFLA --; 6: Words in BFLA --; 7: Sentences in BFLA --; 8: Harmonious bilingual development --; Appendices --; Glossary --; Bibiliography --; Child index --; Language index --; Subject index; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.21832/9781847691507 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781847691507 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781847691507/original ER -