3 Is a Crowd -Nop/048

Acquiring Portuguese in a Trilingual Environment
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-1-85359-838-8
Verlag: Multilingual Matters Limited

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

The book describes three siblings' apportioning of linguistic and cultural space among three languages: Portuguese, Swedish and English. Parallel strategies accounting for monolingual and multilingual language management shape a truly illuminating picture of child linguistic competence. Written by a multilingual parent, educator and linguist, this book is for parents, educators and linguists in our predominantly, increasingly multilingual world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cruz-Ferreira, Madalena

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Alphabetisierung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

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

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cruz-Ferreira, Madalena
Madalena 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.