Table of contents
Preface
ix
Chapter 1.
Introducing multifaceted multilingualism
1
Part I.The early years
Acquisition, development, and education
21
Chapter 2.
To acquire a recursive grammar, children start with a recursive procedure (MERGE)
22
Chapter 3.
Promises and pitfalls of dialect in the classroom
The case of/for African American English
47
Chapter 4.
Microstructural properties in the narrative retellings of young English learners in EMI schools in India
The role of L2 literacy, minority languages and English input in the classroom
68
Chapter 5.
Multilingual advantages
On the relationship between type of bilingualism and language knowledge
123
Part II.Issues in everyday life
Speech, language, and communication
153
Chapter 6.
Diglossia and developmental language disorder (DLD) in Arabic
The role of linguistic distance and linguistic proximity?
154
Chapter 7.
“Grammar, I hate” or “I grammar hate”?
L1 and L2 word order differences and bilingual DLD assessment
184
Chapter 8.
Bilingualism matters
A study of children with autism spectrum disorder and developmental language disorder
204
Chapter 9.
Multimodal story-retelling
Influences of cognitive load on co‑speech and co‑thought gestures for conceptualization
232
Chapter 10.
Raising awareness of stroke, stroke survivor-perspectives, and stroke–carer research
A perspective from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in Australia
254
Part III.From the past to the future
Heritage, translanguaging, and maintenance
269
Chapter 11.
Heritage language education
270
Chapter 12.
Explaining gender
Lessons from heritage Spanish
292
Chapter 13.
Meaning without borders
From translanguaging to transposition in the era of digitally-mediated meaning
327
Chapter 14.
Language alternation is not always translanguaging
Data from Cypriot classrooms
369
Chapter 15.
The sociolinguistics of urban multilingualism
Toronto and Melbourne
395
Chapter 16.
Barossa German
Language documentation, maintenance and renewal in a German-speaking enclave in South Australia
414
Index
429