Typical and Atypical Language Development in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity

Weifeng Han is a Senior Lecturer in Speech Pathology, Institute of Health and Well-being, Federation University, Australia. Chris Brebner is a Professor in Speech Pathology and is Pro-Vice Chancellor (Curriculum Impact) at Flinders University, Australia.

Introduction. 1. Early bilingual acquisition: The effects of home language typology on learning English inflectional morphology. 2. The role of lexical tones in bilingual language processing: evidence from a typing task. 3. Beyond relative clauses: The development of noun-modifying clause constructions in Cantonese. 4. Is object relative clause comprehension particularly sensitive to quantity of language exposure in sequential bilingual children?. 5. Language acquisition at the syntax-semantics interface: Definiteness restrictions in L2 French and L3 English. 6. Acquisition of definiteness marking in L2 Mandarin Chinese by English native speakers: A perspective from syntax-pragmatics interface. 7. A longitudinal exploration of the presence of a bilingual advantage in children. 8. Associations among oral narrative language measures for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian children in their first year of school. 9. Grammatical profiles of Mandarin-English bilingual children at risk for developmental language disorder. 10. Bidialectal CALD learners of English: Implications on bilingual language disorders and differential diagnosis. 11. Heritage language status, use and maintenance in culturally and linguistically diverse contexts. 12. The development and pilot of a dynamic assessment of word learning skills. Index