This book is an excellent resource for readers looking to expand their crosslinguistic knowledge base in phonological acquisition. The studies span the age range from infancy through school years, providing new insights concerning children with typical and atypical development across languages as diverse as Hebrew, Russian and Valley Zapotec.
Barbara May Bernhardt, Professor Emerita, University of British Columbia, Canada
This skillfully edited collection looks to the past while making major strides in moving the field of child phonology forward. These reports of speech development in a diverse set of languages provide unique historical, theoretical, and clinical perspectives of interest to a wide, international audience.
Anna Sosa, Northern Arizona University, USA
<p>The volume contains a plethora of cross-linguistic empirical data on various aspects of phonological acquisition in children with or without diagnosed speech disorders, which will be of interest to a wide international speech-language therapy and linguistic audience (both practitioners and researchers).</p>
- Beata Łukaszewicz, University of Warsaw, Poland, Phonology 38 (2021)
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Elena Babatsouli is the Ben Blanco Memorial/BORSF Endowed Professor in Communicative Disorders and an Associate Professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (Equinox), Associate Editor of the Journal of Child Language (Cambridge Core), in the Executive Committee of the International Association for the Study of Child Language, and a referee of the European Research Council Executive Agency Consolidator Grant. Dr. Babatsouli also serves on the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s Multicultural Issues Board. Her research and scholarship focus on cross-linguistic monolingual and multilingual acquisition/use by children and adults in typical and disordered speech contexts, having published in journals, edited volumes, and encyclopedias. Among several edited/co-edited books (like An Anthology of Bilingual Child Phonology (2020) Multilingual Matters) journal special issues, and conference proceedings, she has recently published Multilingual Acquisition and Learning: An Ecosystemic View to Diversity (2024) for John Benjamins.