Cruz-Ferreira Three is a Crowd?

Acquiring Portuguese in a Trilingual Environment
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-85359-839-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Child Language and Child Development

The book, written by a multilingual parent, educator and linguist, 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cruz-Ferreira, Madalena

Fachgebiete

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

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.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.