Beschreibung:
This book studies the acquisition, loss and re-acquisition of Spanish, English, Portuguese, and Hebrew, the first languages of this writer's son. It applies the results of current work in the areas of psycholinguistics, bilingualism, and applied linguistics to the study of language development in one multilingual child, Noam, from birth to age 17.
Acknowledments. Introduction. The Acquisition of Word Meaning And Lexicon: Referential Avoidance and Parental Intervention. The Acquisition of Syllabic and Word Structure: Individual Differences and Universal Constraints. Variation In The Acquisition of Syllabic and Word Structure: Language-Dependent Constraints. The Re-Emergence of Spanish and Hebrew In Early Adolescence. The Re-Acquisition of Spanish, Hebrew and Portuguese In Late Adolescence. Summary, Conclusions, and Future Research. Appendix.