Phonological Development and Disorders in Children A Multilingual Perspective

This volume brings together a collection of empirical studies on phonological acquisition and disorder of monolingual children speaking different languages (English, German, Putonghua, Cantonese, Maltese, Telugu, Colloquial Egyptian Arabic and Turkish) and bilingual children speaking different language pairs (Spanish-English, Cantonese-English, Mirpuri/Punjabi/Urdu-English, Welsh-English, Arabic-English and Putonghua-Cantonese). The research findings provide much-needed baseline information for clinical assessment and diagnosis as well as valuable evidence concerning theories of language acquisition and the role of the ambient language.

Zhu Hua, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Language and Communication at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. She is the author of Phonological Development in Specific Contexts: Studies of Chinese-Speaking Children and joint author of DEAP: Differential Evaluation of Articulation and Phonology. She has published extensively on child language (Journal of Child Language, Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, etc.) and on cross-cultural pragmatics (Journal of Pragmatics, Multilingua, Language and Intercultural Communication, etc). Barbara Dodd, PhD, is Research Professor at the University of Queensland, Australia. She is the author of Differential Diagnosis and Treatment of Speech disordered children; joint editor of Hearing by Eye: The psychology of lip-reading, Evaluating Theories of Language: Implications from communication disorders, Hearing by Eye II: Advances in the psychology of speech-reading and audio-visual speech, joint author of QUIL: Queensland University Inventory of Literacy, PIPA: Preschool and Primary Inventory of Phonological Awareness, and DEAP: Differential Evaluation of Articulation and Phonology.