What a wonderful day.
Today I received my copies of The Oxford Handbook of Speech Development in Languages of the World.
This book has been in process for over 10 years. It has brought together 173 of the world's leading scholars on children's speech who have written 80 chapters about 75 languages and dialects.
The book is 1503 pages long and is accompanied by audio files of children and adults speaking the languages within the Handbook (available on the Oxford University Press website). A free YouTube channel provides access to authors' summary presentations of their chapters in English and many are also available in the language of focus (e.g., Kurdish is presented in English and Kurdish).
- Online book: https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/62951
- Information: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-speech-development-in-languages-of-the-world-9780192868862
- Google book sample: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?pcampaignid=books_read_action&id=PGDkEQAAQBAJ
A huge thank you to Dr Helen L. Blake who supported the editorial process over the past few years and to Julia Steer and Vicki Sunter from Oxford University Press.
Thank you to to the 173 authors who continue to undertake important research with children across the world - and have taken time to write a chapter for the Handbook in English using our template of headings so that the information is readily accessible.
I am also grateful to
- Prof Nenna Mitter and Prof Mark Evans (Deputy-Vice Chancellor Research, Charles Sturt University) who provided time for me to prioritise this work
- Dr Carolyn Gregoric (Children's Voices Centre, Charles Sturt University) who supported the authors' input on maps and audio files,
- Weibke Freese (University of Lübeck, Germany) who created the index,
- Mark Filmer (Research Office, Charles Sturt University) who assisted with the copy editing,
- Craig Poynter and Simon McDonald (Spatial Analysis Unit, Charles Sturt University)
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| I plan to invite each author to take a photo of themselves and their book somewhere that shows their context. Here am I in rural Australia with a eucalyptus (gum) tree in the background on a lovely winter's day |
