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Publication details [#56720]

Braun, Andreas. 2012. Language maintenance in trilingual families – a focus on grandparents. The International Journal of Multilingualism 9 (4) : 423–436.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

family conversation | language maintenance | language status | language use | multilingualism

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

Drawing on data from 70 interviews of trilingual families with children living in the UK and Germany, this Grounded Theory study discusses how the extended family, and especially grandparents, affect trilingual families' language maintenance.