One Parent, One Language Book

	Figures and Tables
	Preface
1	The Acquisition of two Languages in Early Childhood	1
1.2	Bilingualism in early childhood	2
1.3	Establishing bilingualism in the home	12
1.4	Aims of this study	23
2	The Sample	27
2.2	Data collection	27
2.3	Processing of data	30
2.4	The transcripts	31
2.5	The children's language	34
2.6	Analysis of the data	50
3	The Language Environment	53
3.2	Language maintenance among German-Australians	54
3.3	Factors promoting individual bilingualism	55
3.4	The children's language environments	57
3.5	Discussion of each individual family	71
4	Discourse Structures	81
4.2	The discourse model	82
4.3	Discourse structures in the families	103
5	Teaching Techniques	143
5.2	Parents as teachers	144
5.3	Method	147
5.4	Parental teaching behaviour	154
6	Summary and Conclusions	173
6.2	Summary of results	174
6.3	Determining factors for the individual children's degree of bilingualism	182
6.4	Relationship between results and hypotheses	187
6.5	Four years later	193
6.6	General issues	195
	Notes	201
	References	203
	Appendix: Transcription Symbols	215
	Index	217