New book from Multilingual Matters

[Kathryn King]

PHONOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT IN SPECIFIC CONTEXTS
Studies of Chinese-speaking Children

Zhu Hua
(University of Newcastle)

The book is a major contribution to the cross-linguistic study of
language acquisition in general and a milestone in the study of the
acquisition of Chinese. Professor N. V. Smith, Phonetics and
Linguistics, University College London

Key Features
q The first book-length study of phonological development and impairment
of Chinese-speaking children
q The data in it will be of value to speech and language therapists and
other professionals

Description
This book contains a series of studies of phonological acquisition and
development of children in specific contexts: 
· linguistic context: Putonghua or Modern Standard Chinese
· developmental contexts: normally developing children, children with
speech disorders, children with hearing impairment, and twins.

This is the first book-length study of phonological development and
impairment of Chinese-speaking children. It provides the first normative
data on this population, which will be of value to speech and language
therapists and other professionals. It also advances the notion of
'phonological saliency' which explains the cross-linguistic similarities
and differences in children's phonological development.

Contents
Introduction
1. Developmental universals and cross-linguistic studies of phonological
acquisition
2. Putonghua phonology
3. Phonological acquisition of normally developing children I: cross-
sectional study
4. Phonological acquisition of normally developing children II:
longitudinal study
5. The phonological systems of Putonghua-speaking children with
functional speech disorders
6. Development and change in the phonology of Putonghua-speaking
children with functional speech disorders
7. The phonological systems of a set of Putonghua-speaking twins
8.  Phonological development of a Putonghua-speaking child with
prelingual hearing impairment
9. General discussion and conclusion

Author information
Zhu Hua obtained a PhD from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne where
she is currently a Research Fellow in the Department of Speech studied.
She is also a qualified translator-interpreter and teacher. Since 1996,
she has been involved in a number of research projects on language
acquisition and disorders. She has published extensively on child
language (Journal of Child Language, Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics,
International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders) and cross-
cultural pragmatics (Journal of Pragmatics, Multilingua).

Child Language and Child Development 3  Format: 210 x 148mm xii + 220pp
May 2002
Hbk ISBN 1-85359-588-8   £59.95/ US$89.95 /  CAN$119.95 
Pbk ISBN 1-85359-587-x   £24.95 / US$39.95 / CAN$49.95

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