Reconsidering Early Bilingualism: A Corpus-Based Study of Polish Migrant Children in the United Kingdom

by Marcin Opacki

Overview

This book investigates the language of Polish-English bilingual children raised in the United Kingdom and their Polish monolingual counterparts. It exemplifies the lexico-grammatical knowledge and uses corpus-based grammatical inference in order to establish the source of the impediment of the minority language of the bilingual group.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631677278
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	04/28/2017
Series:	Gdansk Studies in Language , #9
Edition description:	New
Pages:	334
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Marcin Opacki is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Warsaw. His research interests revolve around the description and modelling of natural language using formally annotated corpora. He investigates in particular the applications of corpus-based methodologies in psycholinguistic research.

Table of Contents

Early Bilingualism – Corpus-based investigation – Polish–English bilingual children – Narrative Analysis framework