This volume presents a paradigm shift in the world's knowledge about children's speech development, with 80 chapters covering 75 languages and language varieties or dialects from across the globe. Each of the chapters follows the same structure, facilitating comparison across languages and dialects. Researchers and students can identify relationships between common and unique elements of children's speech to develop new theories and enhance understanding. Crucially, the curated data in the chapters can be used by communication specialists to collaborate with families and communities, in order to support children's home language maintenance and speech development, including in languages not spoken by the specialists.
The Oxford Handbook of Speech Development in Languages of the World outlines a transformative approach by which the discipline can overcome traditional English- and Western-centric biases by respecting and acknowledging longstanding traditions of research, theories, and knowledge from a wide range of countries and cultures - including knowledge not previously translated into English. Languages spoken by First Nations people and traditionally marginalized groups are given equivalent status to majority languages, and the language maps, resources, and pronunciation guides have been created using a rights-based, social justice approach, acknowledging the impact of colonization.
This book presents a paradigm shift in the world's knowledge about children's speech development, with 80 chapters covering 75 languages and language varieties or dialects from across the globe. Each of the chapters follows the same structure, facilitating comparison across languages and dialects for both researchers and communication specialists.
1: Sharynne McLeod: Children's speech development around the world: A
transformative paradigm shift 2: Sarah Verdon: Cultural considerations
regarding children's speech development 3: Martin J. Ball and Nicole Müller:
Articulatory and phonological foundations of speech acquisition 4: Kate
Margetson and Sharynne McLeod: Speech Assessment of Children's Home
Language(s) (SACHL): A clinical protocol 5: Kathryn Crowe and Sharynne
McLeod: Researching children's speech development 6: Brenda Louw, Mia le
Roux, and Salomé Geertsema: Afrikaans speech development 7: Wendy Kwakye
Amoako, Joseph Paul Stemberger, and Andrea A. N. MacLeod: Akan speech
development 8: Tamer Abou-Elsaad, Omayma Afsah, Maii Saad, and Amira Mansour:
Arabic (Egyptian) speech development 9: Hadeel Ayyad, Shaima AlQattan, and
Barbara May Bernhardt: Arabic (Kuwaiti) speech development 10: Ghada Khattab:
Arabic (Lebanese) speech development 11: Talieh Zarifian, Akram Ahmadi, and
Fatemeh Fekar-Gharamaleki: Azerbaijani/Azeri Turkish speech development 12:
Diana Ignatova, Barbara May Bernhardt, and Stefka H. Marinova-Todd: Bulgarian
speech development 13: Carol Kit Sum To and Pamela Sau Ping Cheung: Cantonese
speech development 14: Marit Carolin Clausen: Danish speech development 15:
Anniek Van Doornik, Ellen Gerrits, Paula Fikkert, Mieke Beers, and Hayo
Terband: Dutch speech development 16: Ida J. Stockman: English (African
American) speech development 17: Peter Flipsen Jr.: English (Appalachian)
speech development 18: Sharynne McLeod and Helen L. Blake: English
(Australian) speech development 19: Hyunju Chung and Janna B. Oetting:
English (Cajun) speech development 20: Susan Rvachew, Barbara May Bernhardt,
Alexis K. Black, and Glenda Mason: English (Canadian) speech development 21:
Robert Mayr, Rachael-Anne Knight, Sally Bates, Yvonne Wren, and Sara Howard:
English (English) speech development 22: Holly McAlister, Suzanne C. Hopf,
Paul Geraghty, and Sharynne McLeod: English (Fiji) speech development 23:
Kelly Farquharson, Carol Stoel-Gammon, A. Lynn Williams, and Ann Bosma Smit:
English (General American) speech development 24: Joan Rahilly and Jill
Titterington: English (Irish) speech development 25: Brigid McNeill, Toby
Macrae, Margaret Maclagan, and Gail Gillon: English (New Zealand) speech
development 26: James M. Scobbie, Joanne Cleland, Eleanor Lawson, and Sonja
Schaeffler: English (Scottish) speech development 27: Olebeng Mahura,
Michelle Pascoe, and Yolandi Ribbens-Klein: English (South African) speech
development 28: Carol Kit Sum To, Pamela Sau Ping Cheung, and Sharynne
McLeod: English + Cantonese speech development 29: Andrea A. N. MacLeod,
Françoise Brosseau-Lapré, and Daniel Bérubé: English + French speech
development 30: Elena Babatsouli: English + Greek speech development 31:
Brian A. Goldstein and Raul F. Prezas: English + Spanish speech development
32: Kate Margetson, Sharynne McLeod, Van H. Tran, Sarah Verdon, and Ben
Ph.am: English + Vietnamese speech development 33: Sari Kunnari, Tuula
Savinainen-Makkonen, Katri Saaristo-Helin, and Anna-Leena Martikainen:
Finnish speech development 34: Cassandra Alighieri, Evelien D'haeseleer, and
Kristiane Van Lierde: Flemish speech development 35: Andrea A. N. MacLeod,
Daniel Bérubé, Susan Rvachew, and Françoise Brosseau-Lapré: French (Canadian)
speech development 36: Laetitia Almeida and Christophe dos Santos: French
(France) speech development 37: Margaret Kehoe and Nathalie Niederberger:
French (Swiss) speech development 38: Annette Fox-Boyer and Sigrun Lang:
German speech development 39: Kakia Petinou, Spyros Armostis, and Elena
Babatsouli: Greek (Cypriot) speech development 40: Areti Okalidou and Elena
Babatsouli: Greek (Standard) speech development 41: Avivit Ben-David and Leah
R. Paltiel-Gedalyovich: Hebrew (Israeli) speech development 42: Krisztina
Zajdó and Adam L. Jacobs: Hungarian speech development 43: Thora Másdóttir:
Icelandic speech development 44: Ciara O'Toole, Mary-Pat O'Malley, and Íde Ní
Chonghaile: Irish speech development 45: Sara Lavaggi, Annette Fox-Boyer, and
Silke Fricke: Italian speech development 46: Karla N. Washington, Kathryn
Crowe, Melanie Basinger, and Joseph T Farquharson: Jamaican Creole speech
development 47: Mitsuhiko Ota and Isao Ueda: Japanese speech development 48:
Shahla Fatemi-Syadar and Talieh Zarifian: Kurdish speech development 49:
Akram Ahmadi, Zahra Malmir, Michelle Pascoe, Talieh Zarifian, and Marjan
Larimian: Laki speech development 50: Helen Grech: Maltese speech development
51: Jing Zhao, Stephanie Chung, Chun-Yi Lin, and Barbara May Bernhardt:
Mandarin/Putonghua speech development 52: Elaine Ballard and Waimirirangi
Andrews: M=aori speech development 53: Kristian Emil Kristoffersen, Nina Gram
Garmann, and Hanne Gram Simonsen: Norwegian speech development 54: Talieh
Zarifian, Froogh Shooshtaryzadeh, Helen L. Blake, Mina Fotuhi, Yalda Kazemi,
and Yahya Modarresi: Persian/Farsi speech development 55: Paulina Zydorowicz
and Ewa Czaplewska: Polish speech development 56: Marizete Ilha Ceron,
Marileda Barichello Gubiani, and Marcia Keske-Soares: Portuguese (Brazilian)
speech development 57: Maria João Freitas, Marisa Lousada, and Ana Margarida
Ramalho: Portuguese (European) speech development 58: Elaine Ballard and Ina
Fautua: Samoan speech development 59: Katherine Demuth, Lit%sepiso Matlosa,
and Taelo Qhala: Sesotho speech development 60: Olebeng Mahura, Michelle
Pascoe, and Heather Brookes: Setswana speech development 61: Dana Buntová and
Zuzana Oravkinová: Slovak speech development 62: Martina Ozbi%c and Damjana
Kogov%sek: Slovenian speech development 63: Carmen Ávila Martín, Juana Muñoz
López, and Barbara May Bernhardt: Spanish (Andalusian) speech development 64:
Eliseo Diez-Itza and Patricio Vergara Ponce: Spanish (Castilian) speech
development 65: Denisse Pérez Herrera, Patricio Vergara Ponce, Hernán León
Valdés, and Jaime Soto-Barba: Spanish (Chilean) speech development 66: Mario
E. Chávez-Peón and Alejandra Auza: Spanish (Mexican) speech development 67:
Chelsea Sommer, Evelyn Elizabeth Cáceres Nano, Tanya Flores, and Delia
Elizabeth Delgado Maldonado: Spanish (Peruvian) speech development 68: Sofia
Strömbergsson and Inger Lundeborg Hammarström: Swedish speech development 69:
Ivan Paul Bondoc, Rowena Garcia, and Ferdiliza Dandah S. Garcia: Tagalog
speech development 70: Lakshmi Venkatesh and Savitha Vadakkanthara Hariharan:
Tamil speech development 71: Sumalai Maroonroge, Preeya Lorwatanapongsa, and
Benjamas Prathanee: Thai speech development 72: Jennifer Boer, Mary Claessen,
and Cori Williams: Tok Pisin speech development 73: Hatun Zengin-Bolatkale,
Özlem Ünal-Logacev, and Seyhun Topba,s: Turkish speech development 74: Saira
Ambreen and Carol Kit Sum To: Urdu speech development 75: Ben Ph.am, Kate
Margetson, Sharynne McLeod, Van H. Tran, and Sarah Verdon: Vietnamese speech
development 76: Carmel O'Shannessy, Alice Napurrurla Nelson, Jessie
Nungarrayi Bartlett, and Vanessa Peltharre Davis: Warlpiri speech development
77: Robert Mayr, Rhonwen Lewis, and Yvonne Wren: Welsh speech development 78:
Michelle Pascoe, Olebeng Mahura, and Babalwa Ludidi: Xhosa/isiXhosa speech
development 79: Joseph Paul Stemberger and Mario E. Chávez-Peón: Zapotec
speech development 80: Olebeng Mahura and Michelle Pascoe: Zulu/isiZulu
speech development
Sharynne McLeod is a Distinguished Professor at Charles Sturt University, specializing in children's speech and language acquisition. She has a legacy of leading interdisciplinary teams that undertake impactful and international research into multilingual children's speech, and her transformative work has reframed the speech-language pathology profession by foregrounding communication rights and social justice. She has received Honors of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and Life Membership of Speech Pathology Australia, and is President of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association. Her many publications include Introduction to Speech, Language, and Literacy (co-edited with Jane McCormack; OUP, 2015) and Interventions for Speech Sound Disorders in Children (2nd ed., co-edited with A. Lynn Williams and Rebecca J. McCauley; Brookes Publishing, 2021).
