Margaret Deuchar Author

Margaret Deuchar is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor. After obtaining her undergraduate degree at the University of Cambridge and her Ph.D. at Stanford University in California, she held posts at the universities of Lancaster, Sussex, and Cambridge before moving to Bangor. Previous books include English Grammar for Today (Macmillan 1982, with co-authors Geoffrey Leech and Robert Hoogenraad), British Sign Language (Routledge 1984), and New Horizons in Linguistics (Penguin 1987, with co-editors John Lyons, Richard Coates, and Gerald Gazdar). Suzanne Quay is Associate Professor of International Communication and Linguistics at the International Christian University in Tokyo. She obtained her undergraduate degree at the University of British Columbia, and her M.Phil. and Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge. She has done research not only in early child bilingualism, but also in the area of deaf education. She has published articles in various journals in these areas and is currently investigating multilingual and multicultural development in international families.