Associate Professor Sharynne McLeod’s new International Guide to Speech Acquisition lists the components and phonetics of Korean, Israeli Hebrew, Hungarian, Arabic and even Zapotec (spoken by about 2 000 people in a small area of Mexico), as well as 21 other languages and twelve English dialects, making it the most comprehensive text of its kind. “The International Guide to Speech Acquisition describes the process by which children learn different dialects and different languages. Some of the information has never been translated into English before. If an English-speaking child has a Norwegian mother and a Filipino father, and they are having difficulty in all three languages, this guide can assist the speech pathologist or teacher in helping the child. Many of the 72 authors involved have now set up research projects to fill in the gaps in research that have been exposed by this book.”