Section One: the context in a digital era Part One: Early access to touchscreen technology and incidental second-language acquisition 1. Responses about Children's Early Access to Media 2. Para-Social Relationship and Identification with Animated Cartoon Characters 3. Caregivers' co-viewing strategies 4. Summary and Conclusions Part Two: incidental early second-language acquisition 5. Definition of Incidental Acquisition: and Cognitive, Multimodal and Contextual Factors 6. Forms of Early Bilingualism: features Typology and Issues 7. Case Studies on children's incidental second-language acquisition through media 8.

Summary and Conclusions Section Two: the process in incidental second-language acquisition Part Three: the language in the lyrics of animated songs for young children 9. The Formulaic Perspective in the Analysis of Animated Cartoons 10. Toddlers' Animated Nursery Rhymes 11. Post-Toddlerhood Animated Festivity Tunes 12. Summary and Conclusions Part Four: the language in the scripts of animated series for older children 13. Everyday Life Series Real-world and Fantasy Everyday Life Series 14. Adventure Animation Series 15. Pre-Adolescence Animation Series 16.

Summary and Conclusions Part Five: The phases in incidental early second-language acquisition: a case study 17. Beyond Singing and Beyond: the Silent Listening Phase 18. Towards the Speaking Phase 19. The textual phase: the two siblings' case study 20. Summary and Conclusions.