Acquisition of Russian as L1 and L2

The new book in the Lincom Studies in Language Acquisition and Bilingualism series is dedicated to the acquisition of Russian in monolingual and bilingual contexts. The first two chapters cover a wide range of topics from speech development in infancy, formation of language personality in preschool age, the learning of the deixis, the acquisition of shifters to the development of the lexicon. The focus of the third chapter is on the acquisition of Russian in Germany and Sweden. The fourth part of the book contains papers on the impact of the educational environment on the speech development of young children, the role of ethnopedagogy in the process of language learning of Russian bilingual children, and how Russian is used in the process of psychotherapy. The volume constitutes an excellent, thought-provoking collection of articles and presents new research findings. It will be very useful for linguists interested in Russian linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychologists and the educators of Russian speaking children. Contents: Hristo Kyuchukov: Acquisi-tion of Russian: Introduction - Nikolay Veraksa & Aleksandr Veraksa: Speech development in infancy - Оксана Ушакова, Валентина Яшина и Христо Кючуков / Oxana Ushakova, Valentina Yashina & Hristo Kyuchukov: Форми-рование языко-вой личности в дошколь-ном детстве / Formation of language personality in preschool childhood - Ekaterina Protassova: Acquisition of deixis in Russian: the early steps - Галина Доброва / Galina Dobrova: Освоение “шифтеров” русскими детьми: личные местоимения и термины родства / Learning “shifters” by Russian children: personal pronouns and terms of relationship - Oxana Ushakova, Elizaveta Strunina & Hristo Kyuchukov: Lexico-semantic aspect of сonnected speech development of pre-school children - Tanja Anstatt: Acquisition of verbal aspect in Russian as a heritage language - Natalia Ringblom: Peculiarities of morpho-syntax in Russian heritage children: some implications for mother tongue instruction - Irina Lykova & Viktoria Kozhevnikova: How to create educational environment for children, helping them to defind the word’s meaning - Галина Нездемковская / Galina Nezdemkovskaya: Возможности этнопедагогики в решении проблем билингвального образования России / Possibilities оf еthno-pedagogy in the solution of problems of bilingual education in Russia - Alla Spivakovskaya: Verbal communication training in family therapy: styles and technologies.