Language Acquisition of a Bilingual Child: A Sociolinguistic Perspective

283 Pages·1985·1.21 MB·English

by  Alvino E. Fantini

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title: Language Acquisition of a Bilingual Child : A Sociolinguistic
Perspective (To Age Ten) Multilingual Matters (Series) ; 17
author: Fantini, Alvino E.
publisher: Multilingual Matters
isbn10 | asin: 0905028392
print isbn13: 9780905028392
ebook isbn13: 9780585235295
language: English
subject Bilingualism, Language acquisition, Sociolinguistics.
publication date: 1985
lcc: P118.F36 1985eb
ddc: 404/.2/088054
subject: Bilingualism, Language acquisition, Sociolinguistics.
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Language Acquisition of a Bilingual Child

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Multilingual Matters
1. "Bilingualism: Basic Principles"
HUGO BAETENS BEARDSMORE
2. "Evaluating Bilingual Education: A Canadian Case Study"
MERRILL SWAIN AND SHARON LAPKIN
3. "Bilingual Children: Guidance for the Family"
GEORGE SAUNDERS
4. "Language Attitudes Among Arabic-French Bilinguals in Morocco"
ABDELÂLI BENTAHILA
5. "Conflict and Language Planning in Quebec"
RICHARD Y. BOURHIS (ed.)
6. "Bilingualism and Special Education"
JIM CUMMINS
7. "Bilingualism or Not: The Education of Minorities"
TOVE SKUTNABB-KANGAS
8. "An Ethnographic/Sociolinguistic Approach to Language Proficiency Assessment"
CHARLENE RIVERA (ed.)
9. "Communicative Competence Approaches to Language Proficiency Assessment: Research and Application"
CHARLENE RIVERA (ed.)
10. "Language Proficiency and Academic Achievement"
CHARLENE RIVERA (ed.)
11. "Pluralism: Cultural Maintenance and Evolution"
BRIAN BULLIVANT
12. "Placement Procedures in Bilingual Education: Education and Policy Issues"
CHARLENE RIVERA (ed.)
13. "The Education of Linguistic and Cultural Minorities in the OECD Countries"
STACY CHURCHILL
14. "Learner Language and Language Learning"
CLAUS FAERCH, KIRSTEN HAASTRUP AND ROBERT PHILLIPSON
15. "Bilingual and Multicultural Education: Canadian Perspectives"
STAN SHAPSON AND VINCENT D'OYLEY (eds.)
16. "Multiculturalism: The Changing Paradigm"
LOIS FOSTER AND DAVID STOCKLEY
17. "Language Acquisition of a Bilingual Child"
ALVINO FANTINI
18. "Modelling and Assessing Second Language Acquisition"
KENNETH HYLTENSTAM AND MANFRED PIENEMANN (eds.)
19. "Aspects of Bilingualism in Wales"
COLIN BAKER
20. "Minority Education and Ethnic Survival"
MICHAEL BYRAM
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MULTILINGUAL MATTERS 17
Language Acquisition of a Bilingual Child
A Sociolinguistic Perspective (to Age Ten)
Alvino E. Fantini
MULTILINGUAL
MATTERS LTD

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Fantini, Alvino E.
Language acquisition of a bilingual child: a
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A mis dos hijos,
de quienes tanto aprendí;
y a su roamá.
"¿Por qué yo nací como nene, mamá?
¿Por qué no nací como Dios . . . o como el sol,
como una bola de fuego?"
(Mama, why was I born a little boy?
Why was I not born like God . . . or like the sun,
like a ball of fire?)
Mario, Age 5;2

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Lexical Development and Borrowing
154
Emerging Grammar and Syntactic Borrowing
177
Indices of Proficiency

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Contents
Preface ix
1
Introduction 1
1
General Comments
1
The Study and its Objectives
6
Method
2
Aspects of the Problem 10
10
Related Studies on Developmental Bilingualism
13
On the Nature of Bilingualism
17
Language and the Social Context
3
The Child and His Environment 21
21
Parents and Other Caretakers
25
The Child
30
Language Contact and Exposure Patterns
4
Sociolinguistic Aspects of Language Acquisition 39
39
General Comments
40
Language Differentiation and Bilinguality
56
Language Choice and the Social Variables
79
Language and Socialization
92
Usage and Styles
5
A Linguistic Profile 122
122
General Comments
130
Phonological Development and Mixing
141
Lexical Development and Borrowing
154
Emerging Grammar and Syntactic Borrowing
177
Indices of Proficiency

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Summary and Conclusions 191
Appendix 1: Phonetic Transcription 205
Appendix 2: Excerpts from the Speech Diary 207
Bibliography 252
Index 262

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