Vol. 17 in the Communication disorders across languages series.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

INTRODUCTION / Elena Babatsouli, David Ingram and Nicole Müller

PART 1: TYPICAL LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

1. Speech Development in Three-year-old Children Acquiring isiXhosa and English in South Africa / Michelle Pascoe, Olebeng Mahura, Jane Le Roux, Emily Danvers, Aimée de Jager, Natania Esterhuizen, Chané Naidoo, Juliette Reynders, Savannah Senior and Amy van der Merwe

2. The Impact of Parent Communication Patterns on Infant Volubility during Play with Books / Anna V. Sosa

PART 2: METHODS IN LANGUAGE ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT

3. On the Weight of Phones in Computing Phonological Word Proximity / Elena Babatsouli, David Ingram and Dimitrios Sotiropoulos

4. Investigating Typical and Protracted Phonological Development across Languages / Barbara May Bernhardt and Joseph Paul Stemberger

5. Bilingual Speech Assessment for Maltese Children / Helen Grech, Barbara Dodd and Sue Franklin

6. Early Language Development in a Bilectal Context: The Cypriot Adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates CDI / Loukia Taxitari, Maria Kambanaros, Georgios Floros and Kleanthes K. Grohmann

PART 3: LANGUAGE ACQUISITION IN THE PRESENCE OF A DISORDER

7. Obstructive Sleep Apnoea Syndrome: Does It Really Affect Language Acquisition during Early Childhood? / Georgia Andreou and Matina Tasioudi

8. Language Impairment in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome: A Case Study from Cyprus / Maria Kambanaros, Loukia Taxitari, Eleni Theodorou, Marina Varnava and Kleanthes K. Grohmann

9. The Emergence and Development of Self-repair: A Longitudinal Case Study of Specific Language Impairment from 3;0 to 6;10 Years / Mª Isabel Navarro-Ruiz and Lucrecia Rallo Fabra

10. Local Assimilation in Children Acquiring Farsi: A Study of Typical versus Atypical Phonological Development / Froogh Shooshtaryzadeh

AFTERWORD / Elena Babatsouli, David Ingram and Nicole Müller

Index

"This book presents diverse, original research studies on typical and atypical child language acquisition in monolingual, bilingual and bi-dialectal settings, with a focus on development, assessment and research methodology. Languages investigated in the studies include underrepresented languages, such as Farsi, Greek, Icelandic, isiXhosa, Maltese, Mandarin and Slovene, without excluding representative work in major languages like English and Spanish. The language areas of focus are phonology, lexicon, morphology and syntax and the book incorporates studies in under-researched language impairment, such as Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome and language impairment in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome. The book has practical significance in that it proposes tools and assessment practices that are of universal crosslinguistic relevance while also dealing with language-specific complications. The studies presented enhance existing knowledge and stimulate answers on what the acquisition of disparate languages in different contexts can teach us about language/communication development in the presence or absence of disorder." (Book Cover)