A Longitudinal Study of the Phonological Development of Two Cantonese-English Bilingual Children.

Holm, Alison; Dodd, Barbara

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ERIC Number: EJ595129

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Publication Date: 1999

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A Longitudinal Study of the Phonological Development of Two Cantonese-English Bilingual Children.

Holm, Alison; Dodd, Barbara

Applied Psycholinguistics, v20 n3 p349-76 Sep 1999

Presents longitudinal case studies of the successive phonological acquisition of two Cantonese-English bilingual children, aged 2;3 to 3;1 years and 2;9 to 3; and 5 years. Children were assessed at four-week intervals. Phoneme-acquisition data and phonological process data revealed that both children had separate phonological systems for the two languages. (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cantonese, Case Studies, English, Error Patterns, Language Acquisition, Longitudinal Studies, Monolingualism, Phonemes, Phonology, Toddlers, Young Children

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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