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.
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 children's speech development 4: Kate Margetson and Sharynne McLeod: Speech assessment of children's home languages (SACHL): A clinical protocol 5: Sharynne McLeod and Kathryn Crowe: Researching children's speech development 6: Brenda Louw, Salomé Geertsema, and Mia Le Roux: 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, Shaimaa 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, Stefka H. Marinova-Todd, and Barbara May Bernhardt: Bulgarian speech development 13: Carol K. S. To and Pamela Cheung: Cantonese speech development 14: Marit Carolin Clausen: Danish speech development 15: Anniek Doornik, Ellen Gerrits, Mieke Beers, Paula Fikkert, 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 Blake: English (Australian) speech development 19: Janna B. Oetting and Hyunju Chung: English (Cajun) speech development 20: Barbara May Bernhardt, Alexis Black, Glenda Kelly Mason, and Susan Rvachew: 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 (Fijian) speech development 23: A. Lynn Williams, Carol Stoel-Gammon, Kelly Farquharson, 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 T. Gillon: English (New Zealand) speech development 26: James M. Scobbie, Joanne Cleland, Eleanor Lawson, and Sonja Schaeffler: English (Scottish) speech development 27: Olebeng Masura, Michelle Pascoe, and Yolandi Ribbens-Klein: English (South African) speech development 28: Carol K. S. To, Pamela Cheung, and Sharynne McLeod: English + Cantonese speech development 29: Andrea A. N. MacLeod, Daniel Bérubé, and Françoise Brosseau-Lapré: English + French speech development 30: Elena Babatsouli: English + Greek speech development 31: Brian A. Goldstein and Raúl Prezas: English + Spanish speech development 32: Sharynne McLeod, Sarah Verdon, Ben Pham, Kate Margetson, and Van H. Tran: 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: Letícia Almeida and Christophe dos Santos: French (French) speech development 37: Margaret Kehoe and Nathalie Neiderberger: French (Swiss) speech development 38: Annette Fox-Boyer and Sigrun Lang: German speech development 39: Kakia Petinou, Elena Babatsouli, and Spyros Armostis: Greek (Cypriot) speech development 40: Elena Babatsouli and Areti Okalidou: 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 Masdottir: 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 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: Barbara May Bernhardt, Jing Zhao, Stephanie Chung, and Sasha Chun-Yi Lin: Mandarin/Putonghua speech development 52: Elaine Ballard and Waimirirangi Andrews: Maori speech development 53: Kristian E. 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 Tehrani: Persian/Farsi speech development 55: Paulina Zydorowicz and Ewa Czaplewska: Polish speech development 56: Marcia Keske-Soares, Marizete Ilha Ceron, and Marileda Barichello Gubiani: Portuguese (Brazilian) speech development 57: Maria João Freitas: Portuguese (European) speech development 58: Elaine Ballard and Ina Toaetolu-Fautua: Samoan speech development 59: Katherine Demuth, Litsepiso 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 Ozbic and Damjana Kogovsek: Slovenian speech development 63: Barbara May Bernhardt, Carmen Avila Martin, and Juana Muñoz López: Spanish (Andalusian) speech development 64: Eliseo Diez-Itza and Patricio Vergara: Spanish (Castilian) speech development 65: Denisse Pérez Herrera, Patricio Vergara, Hernán León Valdés, and Jaime Soto-Barba: Spanish (Chilean) speech development 66: Mario E. Chávez-Peón and Alejandra Auza Benavides: Spanish (Mexican) speech development 67: Chelsea Sommer, Evelyn Elizabeth Cáceres Nano, Tanya Flores, and Delia Elizabeth Delgado Maldonado: Spanish (Peruvian) speech development 68: Sofia Strombergsson and Inger Lundeborg Hammarstrom: Swedish speech development 69: Ivan Paul Bondoc, Rowena Garcia, and Ferdilizia 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 Margaret Boer, Mary Claessen, and Cori Williams: Tok Pisin speech development 73: Hatun Zengin-Boltkale, Özlem Ünal-Logacev, and Seyhun Topbas: Turkish speech development 74: Saira Ambreen and Carol K. S. To: Urdu speech development 75: Ben Pham, 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 P. Ludidi: Xhosa/isiXhosa speech development 79: Joseph Paul Stenberger and Mario 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).
