The bilingual child : early development and language contact /

Main Author: Yip, Virginia
Other Authors: Matthews, Stephen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007
Series:Cambridge approaches to language contact
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 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