Advances in the Study of Bilingualism

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Contents

Contributors ix

Foreword xiii

Introduction: Advances in the Study of Bilingualism xvii

Enlli Môn Thomas and Ineke Mennen

Part 1: Bilingual Speech

1 Speech Learning in Bilinguals: Consonant Cluster Acquisition 3
Robert Mayr, Danna Jones and Ineke Mennen

2 Maturational Constraints in Bilingual Speech 25
Esther de Leeuw

Part 2: Bilingual Language Development

3 Cross-linguistic Influence and Patterns of Acquisition 41
Enlli Môn Thomas, Katja F. Cantone, Susanne Davies and Anna Shadrova

4 Bilingual Construction of Two Systems 63
Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole, Rocío Pérez-Tattam, Hans
Stadthagen-González and Enlli Môn Thomas

Part 3: Bilingual Language Use

5 Building Bilingual Corpora 93
Margaret Deuchar, Peredur Davies, Jon Russell Herring, M. Carmen
Parafita Couto and Diana Carter

6 Factors Influencing Code-Switching 111
M. Carmen Parafita Couto, Peredur Davies, Diana Carter and
Margaret Deuchar