Fifteen American and Mexican researchers of language development and disorders contribute 13 chapters presenting current findings on language development and disorders in Spanish-English bilingual children and linking those findings to the assessment and treatment of Spanish-English bilingual children with communication disorders. Coverage includes an overview of the topic, bilingual language acquisition and child socialization, the relationship between vocabulary and meaning, morphosyntactic acquisition, first-language loss in Spanish-speaking children, grammatical impairments, narrative development and disorders, phonological and fluency components, and language intervention with bilingual children. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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