Bilingual Siblings : : Language Use in Families / / Suzanne Barron-Hauwaert.
How do bilingual brothers and sisters talk to each other? Sibling language use is an uncharted area in studies of bilingualism. From a perspective of independent researcher and parent of three bilingual children Suzanne Barron-Hauwaert discusses the issues of a growing bilingual or multilingual fami...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Parents' and Teachers' Guides
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. What Do We Know about Bilingual Families?
- Chapter 2. The Growing and Evolving Family
- Chapter 3. The Sibling Relationship
- Chapter 4. Age Difference, Family Size and Language Orders
- Chapter 5. Gender and Language
- Chapter 6. Birth Order: A Child’s Position in the Family
- Chapter 7. Individual Differences: Same Languages, Different Language Histories
- Chapter 8. Bilingualism and Twins, Adoption, Single Parents and Step-Families
- Chapter 9. Five Themes on Family Language Patterns
- Family Profiles
- Appendix 1. Summary of Strategies
- Appendix 2. The Online Survey
- Glossary
- Websites and Chat Forums
- Recommended Books for Bilingual Families
- References
- Index