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Bimodal Bilingual Acquisition of a HKSL-Cantonese Deaf Child
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2026
About this book
This book explores a type of bilingual acquisition – early sequential bimodal bilingual acquisition – in Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL) and oral Cantonese, by adopting data from a deaf child who acquired HKSL from birth and Cantonese from around age 2 after cochlear implantation. One main goal of this book is to verify if the developmental trajectories and acquisition processes such as crosslinguistic interaction resemble those documented in monolingual acquisition. The associated acquisition processes are accounted for with reference to the Language Synthesis Model (Lillo-Martin et al 2016) which is built upon the theory of Distributed Morphology.
Author / Editor information
Jieqiong Li, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China.
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook
planned publication:
March 15, 2026
eBook ISBN:
9783111558813
Hardcover
planned publication:
March 15, 2026
Hardcover ISBN:
9783111557519
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
500
Illustrations:
5
Coloured Illustrations:
36
Tables:
50
eBook ISBN:
9783111558813
Hardcover ISBN:
9783111557519
Keywords for this book
Bimodal bilingual acquisition; sequential bilingual acquisition; deaf child; nominal structure; Hong Kong Sign Language; Cantonese
Audience(s) for this book
Researchers, professionals and educators concerned with bilingual acquisition or the language development of deaf children.
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