L'ENFANT HAITIEN ET LE BILINGUISME: Une édition revue par l'auteure et accompagnée d'une préface du linguiste Hugues St Fort

In this book, Maryse Noël Roumain compares the genesis of Creole languages to child language while warning us against simplification views and using the modern psycholinguistic theories of language acquisition. She proceeds to explaining the acquisition of English by a child in situation of languages-in contact. She also studies school failure among Haitian children in North American schools. L’Enfant Haïtien Et le Bilinguisme, The Haitian Child and Bilingualism is a book for researchers, educators and parents.