March 10, 2022

First meetings of The [Oxford] Handbook of Speech Development in Languages of the World

I have held three meetings across different timezones for chapter authors within The [Oxford] Handbook of Speech Development in Languages of the World. It has been wonderful to see familiar faces as well as to meet new colleagues who are embarking on this exciting journey with me.

Chapter authors - Meeting 1

Chapter authors - Meeting 2
Chapter authors - Meeting 3
(with New Zealand authors writing Samoan and Māori chapters)


Chapter author - Meeting 4
(with Olebeng Mahura who is co-authoring Setswana, isiXhosa, and South African English chapters)


Here is the current Table of Contents

1.     Speech development of monolingual and multilingual children

2.     Articulatory and phonological foundations of children’s speech development 

3.     Cultural considerations regarding children’s speech development

4.     Research into children’s speech development

5.     Afrikaans speech development

6.     Akan speech development

7.     Arabic (Egyptian) speech development

8.     Arabic (Kuwaiti) speech development

9.     Arabic (Lebanese) speech development

10.  Azerbaijani speech development

11.  Bulgarian speech development

12.  Cantonese speech development

13.  Croatian speech development

14.  Danish speech development

15.  Dutch speech development

16.  English (African American) speech development

17.  English (Appalachian) speech development

18.  English (General American) speech development

19.  English (Australian) speech development

20.  English (British) speech development

21.  English (Canadian) speech development

22.  English (Cajun) speech development

23.  English (Fijian) speech development

24.  English (Irish) speech development

25.  English (New Zealand) speech developmen

26.  English (Scottish) speech development

27.  English (South African) speech development

28.  English + Cantonese speech development

29.  English + French speech development

30.  English + Greek speech development

31.  English + Korean speech development

33.  English + Spanish speech development 

34.  English + Vietnamese speech development

35.  Farsi speech development 

36.  Filipino speech development

37.  Finnish speech development

38.  Flemish speech development

39.  French (Canadian) speech development

40.  French (French) speech development

41.  French (Swiss) speech development 

42.  German speech development

43.  Greek (Cypriot) speech development

44.  Greek (Standard) speech development

45.  Hebrew (Israeli) speech development 

46.  Hungarian speech development

47.  Icelandic speech development

48.  Irish speech development 

49.  Italian speech development 

50.  Jamaican Creole speech development 

51.  Japanese speech development 

52.  Korean speech development 

53.  Kurdish speech development

54.  Malay speech development 

55.  Maltese speech development 

56.  Māori speech development

57.  Mandarin/Putonghua speech development 

58.  Norwegian speech development 

59.  Persian speech development

60.  Polish speech development 

61.  Portuguese (Brazilian) speech development 

62.  Portuguese (European) speech development 

63.  Samoan speech development 

64.  Sesotho speech development

65.  Setswana speech development

66.  Slovak speech development 

67.  Slovenian speech development 

68.  Spanish (Andalusian) speech development 

69.  Spanish (Castilian) speech development 

70.  Spanish (Chilean) speech development 

71.  Spanish (Mexican) speech development 

72.  Swedish speech development

73.  Thai speech development

74.  Turkish speech development 

75.  Vietnamese speech development 

76.  Welsh speech development 

77.  isiXhosa speech development

78.  Zapotec speech development 

79.  isiZulu speech development (TBC)