The Oxford Handbook of Speech Development in Languages of the World

This volume presents a paradigm shift in the world's knowledge about children's speech development, with 80 chapters covering 75 languages and language varieties or dialects from across the globe. Each of the chapters follows the same structure, facilitating comparison across languages and dialects. Researchers and students can identify relationships between common and unique elements of children's speech to develop new theories and enhance understanding. Crucially, the curated data in the chapters can be used by communication specialists to collaborate with families and communities, in order to support children's home language maintenance and speech development, including in languages not spoken by the specialists.

The Oxford Handbook of Speech Development in Languages of the World outlines a transformative approach by which the discipline can overcome traditional English- and Western-centric biases by respecting and acknowledging longstanding traditions of research, theories, and knowledge from a wide range of countries and cultures - including knowledge not previously translated into English. Languages spoken by First Nations people and traditionally marginalized groups are given equivalent status to majority languages, and the language maps, resources, and pronunciation guides have been created using a rights-based, social justice approach, acknowledging the impact of colonization.

Sharynne McLeod, Distinguished Professor, Charles Sturt University

Sharynne McLeod is a Distinguished Professor at Charles Sturt University, specializing in children's speech and language acquisition. She has a legacy of leading interdisciplinary teams that undertake impactful and international research into multilingual children's speech, and her transformative work has reframed the speech-language pathology profession by foregrounding communication rights and social justice. She has received Honors of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and Life Membership of Speech Pathology Australia, and is President of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association. Her many publications include Introduction to Speech, Language, and Literacy (co-edited with Jane McCormack; OUP, 2015) and Interventions for Speech Sound Disorders in Children (2nd ed., co-edited with A. Lynn Williams and Rebecca J. McCauley; Brookes Publishing, 2021).

1. Children's speech development around the world: A transformative paradigm shift, Sharynne McLeod2. Cultural considerations regarding children's speech development, Sarah Verdon3. Articulatory and phonological foundations of children's speech development, Martin J. Ball and Nicole Müller4. Speech assessment of children's home languages (SACHL): A clinical protocol, Kate Margetson and Sharynne McLeod5. Researching children's speech development, Sharynne McLeod and Kathryn Crowe6. Afrikaans speech development, Brenda Louw, Salomé Geertsema, and Mia Le Roux7. Akan speech development, Wendy Kwakye Amoako, Joseph Paul Stemberger, and Andrea A. N. MacLeod8. Arabic (Egyptian) speech development, Tamer Abou-Elsaad, Omayma Afsah, Maii Saad, and Amira Mansour9. Arabic (Kuwaiti) speech development, Hadeel Ayyad, Shaimaa AlQattan, and Barbara May Bernhardt10. Arabic (Lebanese) speech development, Ghada Khattab11. Azerbaijani/Azeri Turkish speech development, Talieh Zarifian, Akram Ahmadi, and Fatemeh Fekar-Gharamaleki12. Bulgarian speech development, Diana Ignatova, Stefka H. Marinova-Todd, and Barbara May Bernhardt13. Cantonese speech development, Carol K. S. To and Pamela Cheung14. Danish speech development, Marit Carolin Clausen15. Dutch speech development, Anniek Doornik, Ellen Gerrits, Mieke Beers, Paula Fikkert, and Hayo Terband16. English (African American) speech development, Ida J. Stockman17 English (Appalachian) speech development, Peter Flipsen Jr.18. English (Australian) speech development, Sharynne McLeod and Helen Blake19. English (Cajun) speech development, Janna B. Oetting and Hyunju Chung20. English (Canadian) speech development, Barbara May Bernhardt, Alexis Black, Glenda Kelly Mason, and Susan Rvachew21. English (English) speech development, Robert Mayr, Rachael-Anne Knight, Sally Bates, Yvonne Wren, and Sara Howard22. English (Fijian) speech development, Holly McAlister, Suzanne C. Hopf, Paul Geraghty, and Sharynne McLeod23. English (General American) speech development, A. Lynn Williams, Carol Stoel-Gammon, Kelly Farquharson, and Ann Bosma Smit24. English (Irish) speech development, Joan Rahilly and Jill Titterington25. English (New Zealand) speech development, Brigid McNeill, Toby Macrae, Margaret Maclagan, and Gail T. Gillon26. English (Scottish) speech development, James M. Scobbie, Joanne Cleland, Eleanor Lawson, and Sonja Schaeffler27. English (South African) speech development, Olebeng Masura, Michelle Pascoe, and Yolandi Ribbens-Klein28. English + Cantonese speech development, Carol K. S. To, Pamela Cheung, and Sharynne McLeod29. English + French speech development, Andrea A. N. MacLeod, Daniel Bérubé, and Françoise Brosseau-Lapré30. English + Greek speech development, Elena Babatsouli31. English + Spanish speech development, Brian A. Goldstein and Raúl Prezas32. English + Vietnamese speech development, Sharynne McLeod, Sarah Verdon, Ben Ph?m, Kate Margetson, and Van H. Tran33. Finnish speech development, Sari Kunnari, Tuula Savinainen-Makkonen, Katri Saaristo-Helin, and Anna-Leena Martikainen34. Flemish speech development, Cassandra Alighieri, Evelien D'haeseleer, and Kristiane Van Lierde35. French (Canadian) speech development, Andrea A. N. MacLeod, Daniel Bérubé, Susan Rvachew, and Françoise Brosseau-Lapré36. French (French) speech development, Letícia Almeida and Christophe dos Santos37. French (Swiss) speech development, Margaret Kehoe and Nathalie Neiderberger38. German speech development, Annette Fox-Boyer and Sigrun Lang39. Greek (Cypriot) speech development, Kakia Petinou, Elena Babatsouli, and Spyros Armostis40. Greek (Standard) speech development, Elena Babatsouli and Areti Okalidou41. Hebrew (Israeli) speech development, Avivit Ben-David and Leah R. Paltiel-Gedalyovich42. Hungarian speech development, Krisztina Zajdó and Adam L. Jacobs43. Icelandic speech development, Thora Masdottir44. Irish speech development, Ciara O'Toole, Mary Pat O'Malley, and Íde Ní Chonghaile45. Italian speech development, Sara Lavaggi, Annette Fox-Boyer, and Silke Fricke46. Jamaican Creole speech development, Karla N. Washington, Kathryn Crowe, Melanie Basinger, and Joseph Farquharson47. Japanese speech development, Mitsuhiko Ota and Isao Ueda48. Kurdish speech development, Shahla Fatemi Syadar and Talieh Zarifian49. Laki speech development, Akram Ahmadi, Zahra Malmir, Michelle Pascoe, Talieh Zarifian, and Marjan Larimian50. Maltese speech development, Helen Grech51. Mandarin/Putonghua speech development, Barbara May Bernhardt, Jing Zhao, Stephanie Chung, and Sasha Chun-Yi Lin52. Maori speech development, Elaine Ballard and Waimirirangi Andrews53. Norwegian speech development, Kristian E. Kristoffersen, Nina Gram Garmann, and Hanne Gram Simonsen54. Persian/Farsi speech development, Talieh Zarifian, Froogh Shooshtaryzadeh, Helen L. Blake, Mina Fotuhi, Yalda Kazemi, and Yahya Modarresi Tehrani55. Polish speech development, Paulina Zydorowicz and Ewa Czaplewska56. Portuguese (Brazilian) speech development, Marcia Keske-Soares, Marizete Ilha Ceron, and Marileda Barichello Gubiani57. Portuguese (European) speech development, Maria João Freitas, Marisa Lousada, and Ana Margarida Ramalho58. Samoan speech development, Elaine Ballard and Ina Toaetolu-Fautua59. Sesotho speech development, Katherine Demuth, Litšepiso Matlosa, and Taelo Qhala60. Setswana speech development, Olebeng Mahura, Michelle Pascoe, and Heather Brookes61. Slovak speech development, Dana Buntová and Zuzana Oravkinová62. Slovenian speech development, Martina Ozbic and Damjana Kogovšek63. Spanish (Andalusian) speech development, Barbara May Bernhardt, Carmen Avila Martin, and Juana Muñoz López64. Spanish (Castilian) speech development, Eliseo Diez-Itza and Patricio Vergara65. Spanish (Chilean) speech development, Denisse Pérez Herrera, Patricio Vergara, Hernán León Valdés, and Jaime Soto-Barba66. Spanish (Mexican) speech development, Mario E. Chávez-Peón and Alejandra Auza Benavides67. Spanish (Peruvian) speech development, Chelsea Sommer, Evelyn Elizabeth Cáceres Nano, Tanya Flores, and Delia Elizabeth Delgado Maldonado68. Swedish speech development, Sofia Strombergsson and Inger Lundeborg Hammarstrom69. Tagalog speech development, Ivan Paul Bondoc, Rowena Garcia, and Ferdilizia Dandah S. Garcia70. Tamil speech development, Lakshmi Venkatesh and Savitha Vadakkanthara Hariharan71. Thai speech development, Sumalai Maroonroge, Preeya Lorwatanapongsa, and Benjamas Prathanee72. Tok Pisin speech development, Jennifer Margaret Boer, Mary Claessen, and Cori Williams73. Turkish speech development, Hatun Zengin-Boltkale, Özlem Ünal-Logacev, and Seyhun Topbas74. Urdu speech development, Saira Ambreen and Carol K. S. To75. Vietnamese speech development, Ben Ph?m, Kate Margetson, Sharynne McLeod, Van H. Tran, and Sarah Verdon76. Warlpiri speech development, Carmel O'Shannessy, Alice Napurrurla Nelson, Jessie Nungarrayi Bartlett, and Vanessa Peltharre Davis77. Welsh speech development, Robert Mayr, Rhonwen Lewis, and Yvonne Wren78. Xhosa/isiXhosa speech development, Michelle Pascoe, Olebeng Mahura, and Babalwa P. Ludidi79. Zapotec speech development, Joseph Paul Stenberger and Mario Chávez-Peón80. Zulu/isiZulu speech development, Olebeng Mahura and Michelle Pascoe