Barron-Hauwaert Suzanne. Bilingual siblings: Language use in families

Multilingual Matters, 2011. — 216 pages. — ISBN: 978-1-84769-326-6Taking a different perspective to traditional case studies on one bilingual child, this book discusses the whole family and the realities of life with two or more children and languages. What do we know about the language patterns of children in a growing and evolving bilingual family? Which languages do the siblings prefer to speak to each other? Do the factors of birth order, personality or family size affect language use? This book unveils the reality behind life with bilingual siblings.Two or More Children
Siblings in Bilingual or Multilingual FamiliesWho this Book is forThree Very Different Siblings
Questions on Family Language Use
What Do We Know about Bilingual Families?
The Lack of Sibling Sets in Academic Research.
Parent Researchers and Diary Data.
Linguists Researching Bilingual Families.
Advice for Parents in Books for Bilingual Families
[b]The Growing and Evolving Family
Balancing Majority and Minority Language Use
Adapting Family Strategies to the Growing Family.
Fine-Tuning Family Language Strategies
Relocating and Rebalancing Language Use
In Comes the Majority, Out Goes the Minority
Special Situations
The First or Only Child
The Sibling Relationship
Our ‘Preferred’ Language
Child-to-Child Language Use
The School Language Effect
Mixed Language Use.
Siblings Helping to Maintain a Minority Language
Age Difference, Family Size and Language Orders
Close-in-Age Siblings
Wider Age Gap between Siblings
Siblings as Teachers
Families with Three or More Children
Siblings with Different Language Orders.
Gender and Language
The Gender Divide.
Girls, Boys and Language
Early-Speaking Bilingual Girls.
Foreign Languages and Gender.
The Girl Myth
Birth Order: A Child’s Position in the Family.
First-Born, Middle-Born or Last-Born Children
The Birth Order Debate
Birth Order and Language Use within the Bilingual Family.
Vocabulary and Language Use Linked to Birth Order
Does Birth Order Make a Difference?
Individual Differences: Same Languages, Different Language Histories.
The Nature or Nurture Debate.
Language Acquisition
Different Language Histories
Language-Gifted Children
The Extrovert Myth
Language Friction
Bilingualism and Twins, Adoption, Single Parents and Step-Families
Twins and Language Use
Bilingual Twins
Adoption and Bilingualism
International Adoptions
Single Parents
Siblings with Half-Sisters and Brothers
Five Themes on Family Language Patterns
Our ‘Preferred’ Language
Home to School Transition
A Strategy to Suit the Children
Same Languages, Different Children
Inter-Sibling Language UseFamily Profies
Summary of Strategies
One-Parent–One-Language (OPOL)
Mixed Language Use: Bilingual and Multilingual
Minority-Language-at-Home (ML@H)
Lingua Franca
Non-Native
Time & Place
The Online Survey
Location and Nationality of the Families
The Parents and their Language Skills
The Sibling Sets
Parent’s Opinions.