Includes bibliographical references ([p. 203]-213) and index.
1. The Acquisition of two Languages in Early Childhood. 1.2. Bilingualism in early childhood. 1.3. Establishing bilingualism in the home. 1.4. Aims of this study -- 2. The Sample. 2.2. Data collection. 2.3. Processing of data. 2.4. The transcripts. 2.5. The children's language. 2.6. Analysis of the data -- 3. The Language Environment. 3.2. Language maintenance among German-Australians. 3.3. Factors promoting individual bilingualism. 3.4. The children's language environments. 3.5. Discussion of each individual family -- 4. Discourse Structures. 4.2. The discourse model. 4.3. Discourse structures in the families -- 5. Teaching Techniques. 5.2. Parents as teachers. 5.3. Method. 5.4. Parental teaching behaviour -- 6. Summary and Conclusions. 6.2. Summary of results. 6.3. Determining factors for the individual children's degree of bilingualism. 6.4. Relationship between results and hypotheses. 6.5. Four years later. 6.6. General issues -- Appendix: Transcription Symbols.