Multilingualism across the Lifespan

Unn Røyneland is Professor of Scandinavian Linguistics and Deputy Director of the Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan at the University of Oslo, Norway.Robert Blackwood is Professor of French Sociolinguistics in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Liverpool, UK.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsPreface by Marilyn Martin-JonesIntroduction Robert Blackwood and Unn RøynelandPart One – Bilingual acquisition – methodological and theoretical advances1. Child Language Assessment across Different Multilingual Contexts:Insights and challenges from South and North Hanne Gram Simonsen and Frenette Southwood2. Developmental Perspectives on Parents’ Use of Discourse Strategies with Bilingual Children Annick De Houwer and Janice Nakamura3. The Role of the Input in the Acquisition of Code-Switching Shannon Phillips and Margaret DeucharPart Two – Language Practices and Policies in the Family4. Language Development, Discourse, and Politics: Family language policy foundations and current directions Kendall King and Xiao-Lan Curdt-Christiansen5. Family Time(s): Migrant temporalities in Family Language Planning in the urban African South Christine Anthonissen and Christopher Stroud6. From "Civilising Missions" to Indigenous Language Reclamation: Language policy, language shift and maintenance in Australia and Norway Pia Lane and Gillian WigglesworthPart Three – Bilingual Ageing – Communication and Cognitive Impairments7. Where have all my languages gone? Aging and the changing multilingual linguistic ecology Ng Bee Chin and Francesco Cavallaro8. Fostering Storytelling by Persons with Dementia in Multiparty Conversation Jan Svennevig and Heidi Hamilton9. Assessment challenges in Acquired Aphasia in Multilingual Individuals Monica Norvik and Mira Goral10. Pathological Language Switching/Mixing and its Relationship to Domain-General Cognitive Control Valantis Fyndanis and Minna LehtonenPart Four – Concluding Remarks11. Carving New Spaces in the Study of Individual Multilingualism Across the LifespanLourdes OrtegaList of ContributorsList of FiguresList of TablesIndex