The bilingual child [electronic resource] : early development and language contact /

Yip, Virginia, 1962-

The bilingual child early development and language contact / [electronic resource] : Virginia Yip, Stephen Matthews. - Cambridge, UK ; Cambridge University Press, 2007. - xxiii, 295 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Cambridge approaches to language contact . - Cambridge approaches to language contact. ACLS Humanities E-Book. .

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-286) and index.

Introduction -- Theoretical framework -- Methodology -- Wh-interrogatives: to move or not to move? -- Null objects: dual input and learnability -- Relative clauses: transfer and universals -- Vulnerable domains in Cantonese and the directionality of transfer -- Bilingual development and contact-induced grammaticalization -- Conclusions and implications.

2027/heb07828 hdl

Bilingualism in children. Language acquisition. Languages in contact.