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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;5 years, are presented. The children were assessed at 4-week intervals. The first assessment of their phonology occurred when they had been exposed to English for three months. Phoneme acquisition and phonological process data revealed that both children had separate phonological systems for the two languages. The two phonological systems for each child developed in similar ways to monolingual children acquiring Cantonese and English. However, a number of error patterns, indicative of disorder in monolingual children, were evident in the children's phonological systems in English and in Cantonese. These patterns have been documented as normal error patterns for successive bilingual Cantonese-English speaking children. The difference between normal successive bilingual phonological development and normal monolingual development is addressed.
Author(s): Dodd B; Holm A
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Applied Psycholinguistics
Year: 1999
Volume: 20
Issue: 3
Pages: 349-376
Print publication date: 01/09/1999
ISSN (print): 0142-7164
ISSN (electronic): 1469-1817
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
URL: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=31981&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0142716499003021
