TY - BOOK AU - Cruz-Ferreira,Madalena TI - Three is a Crowd?: Acquiring Portuguese in a Trilingual Environment T2 - Child Language and Child Development SN - 9781853598388 AV - P115.2 .C78 2006 PY - 2006///] CY - Bristol, Blue Ridge Summit : PB - Multilingual Matters, KW - Language acquisition KW - Language and culture KW - Multilingualism in children KW - Portuguese language KW - Acquisition KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General KW - bisacsh KW - Bilingual Acquisition KW - Bilingualism KW - Child language development KW - Child linguistic competence KW - English KW - Multilingual acquisition KW - Multilingual development KW - Multilingualism KW - Portuguese KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Swedish KW - Trilingualism N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; 1. Preview --; Part 1: Becoming Multilingual --; 2. Issues in Bilingualism and Bilingual Acquisition --; 3. The Children --; 4. Data Collection and Analytical Choices --; 5. Speaking Languages, and Talking about Them --; Part 2: Making Sense of Portuguese --; 6. Shaping Sound --; 7. Probing for Constituency --; 8. Probing for Meaning --; Part 3: Acquiring a Third Language --; 9. A New Language: Intruder or Guest? --; 10. Language Input and Language Management in a Multilingual Environment --; 11. Balancing Culture and Identity --; 12. Overview --; References --; Index; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.21832/9781853598395 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781853598395 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781853598395/original ER -