Risk and Protective Environmental Factors for E, Gatt, O'Toole..

Taylor & Francis

Risk and Protective Environmental Factors for Early Bilingual Language AcquisitionAuthor(s): Daniela Gatt, Ciara O'Toole\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138544499, 978-1138544499\nSynopsis\nBilingual language exposure is highly variable, with wide-ranging influences on early language skills. This underscores the need for understanding what to expect in early language acquisition so that those with typical language development can be differentiated from those who are struggling or at risk, and so requiring early intervention. One of the key ways to look at language development in very young children is to investigate their vocabulary development, and for bilingual children, this means measuring their abilities in both languages. \n\nThis book takes an important step in this direction: it documents the expressive vocabularies of children aged 16-45 months who were exposed to different language pairs and bilingual .