An Anthology of Bilingual Child Phonology

This book is an edited collection of chapters on protolanguage phonology, referring to the development of children's autonomous linguistic systems from their first meaningful forms to complete cognitive and articulatory acquisition of language. The book contains phonological development studies that pertain to themes in bilingualism, understood as the acquisition or use of more than one linguistic code, whether actual languages, dialects, or communication modes, in an array of contexts. Such contexts include endogenous and exogenous bilingualism, heritage language, bilectalism, trilingualism, typical and atypical use and bimodality. The book will be of interest to researchers and postgraduate students investigating language acquisition in bilingual settings, as well as those working on child phonological development across a variety of languages.