Three is a Crowd?

Madalena Cruz-Ferreira hails from Portugal and received postgraduate degrees in linguistics from the University of Manchester, UK. Her main research interests are child multilingualism, multilingual phonology and intonation, and the language of science. Recent publications include a book on the language of linguistics (2003, Prentice Hall), articles and book chapters on child prosody and multilingualism, foreign intonational accent and Portuguese phonology and intonation. She has lived in Singapore for over 10 years with her Swedish husband and their three trilingual children.

Cruz-Ferreira’s book provides insight into the strategies that young children develop to guide their own acquisitional processes. This book provides further support for the view of language as a ‘resource’ or tool and multilingualism as an opportune site for the study of the acquisition and use of that communicative resource.

• Acknowledgements 1. Preview Part I. Becoming Multilingual 2. Issues in Bilingualism and Bilingual Acquisition3. The Children4. Data Collection and Analytical Choices5. Speaking Languages and Talking about themPart II. Making Sense of Portuguese 6. Shaping Sound7. Probing for Constituency8. Probing for Meaning Part III. Acquiring a Third Language 9. A New Language: Intruder or Guest?10. Language Input and Language Management in a Multilingual Environment11. Balancing Culture and Identity12. Overview ReferencesIndex