Three Is a Crowd?
Subtitle: Acquiring Portuguese in a Trilingual Environment
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
Published: January 30, 2006
Place of publication: Clevedon, UK
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781853598388
Subjects: Bilingualism & multilingualism; Language acquisition; Multilingualism in children; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; English; Portuguese; Swedish; Language; Sociolinguistics; Linguistics; Language and culture
Description: The book describes three siblings' apportioning of linguistic and cultural space among three languages: Portuguese, Swedish and English. Parallel strategies accounting for monolingual and multilingual language management shape a truly illuminating picture of child linguistic competence. Written by a multilingual parent, educator and linguist, this book is for parents, educators and linguists in our predominantly, increasingly multilingual world.
Table of contents: title: x
label: Acknowledgements; title: 1
label: Preview; label: Part 1
pagenum: 13
title: Becoming multilingual; label: Part 2
pagenum: 96
title: Making sense of Portuguese; label: Part 3
pagenum: 210
title: Acquiring a third language; title: 300
label: Overview; title: 311
label: References; title: 330
label: Index