The bilingual child : early development and language contact / Virginia Yip, Stephen Matthews.
- Yip, Virginia, 1962-
- Date:
- 2007
- Books
- Online
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About this work
Publication/Creation
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Physical description
xxiii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction -- Theoretical framework -- Methodology -- Wh-interrogatives: to move or not to move? -- Null objects: dual input and learnability -- Relative clauses: transfer and universals -- Vulnerable domains in Cantonese and the directionality of transfer -- Bilingual development and contact-induced grammaticalization -- Conclusions and implications.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-286) and index.
Reproduction note
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2010. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) ([Cambridge approaches to language contact]) Mode of access: Intranet.