About the Editor

vii

About the Contributors

ix

Foreword   D. Kimbrough Oller

xv

Preface to the Second Edition

xix

Acknowledgments

xxi

I

SETTING THE STAGE

1

Bilingual Language Development of English Language Learners: Modeling the Growth of Two Languages   Aquiles Iglesias and Raúl Rojas

3

2

Bilingual Language Acquisition and the Child Socialization Process   Carol Scheffner Hammer and Barbara Rodríguez

31

3

Language Processing and Production in Infants and Toddlers   Barbara T. Conboy

47

4

Cross-Linguistic Influence and Code-Switching   Johanne Paradis

73

II

LEXICAL AND SEMANTIC ASPECTS

5

Processing Skills in Early Sequential Bilinguals   Kathryn Kohnert

95

6

Bilingual Lexical Development, Assessment, and Intervention   Janet L. Patterson and Barbara Zurer Pearson

113

7

Semantic Development in Spanish-English Bilinguals: Theory, Assessment, and Intervention   Elizabeth D. Peña, Ellen Stubbe Kester, and Li Sheng

131

III

FROM GRAMMAR TO DISCOURSE

8

Verb Morphology and Vocabulary in Monolinguals, Emerging Bilinguals, and Monolingual Children with Primary Language Impairment   Donna Jackson-Maldonado

153

9

Morphosyntactic Development   Lisa M. Bedore, Solaman J. Cooperson, and Karin M. Boerger

175

10

First Language Loss in Spanish-Speaking Children: Patterns of Loss and Implications for Clinical Practice   Raquel T. Anderson

193

11

Grammatical Impairments in Spanish-English Bilingual Children   Maíia Adelaida Restrepo and Vera F. Gutiérrez-Clellen

213

12

Narrative Development and Disorders in Bilingual Children   Vera F. Gutiérrez-Clellen

233

13

Literacy   Megan Dunn Davison and María Brea-Spahn

251

14

Language and the Educational Setting   Lisa M. López

267

IV

SPEECH CHARACTERISTICS

15

Phonological Development and Disorders   Brian A. Goldstein and Christina Gildersleeve-Neumann

285

16

Fluency   Nan Bernstein Ratner

311

V

RESEARCH TO PRACTICE

17

Language Intervention with Bilingual Children   Kathryn Kohnert and Ann Derr

337

Appendix

Resources for Spanish-English Speech-Language Therapy

357

18

Professional Development Practices and Content for Professionals Working with Preschool Dual Language Learners   María Adelaida Restrepo and Shelley Gray

365

Index

379