a question about multilingual babies

[Sharon Armon-Lotem]

Dear Tamar,

You can find some answers to FAQ by parents to bilingual children at
http://www.bi-sli.org/Parents.htm

I doubt there is any solid (scientific based) evidence against raising your
child multilingual, and hearsay is not a good enough reason. Barbara is
right, go by the communicative needs of your child, keep in mind that
bilingualism has many advantages and keep an open eye to your child's
linguistic development as you would do for any child. Boys are more prone to
impairments but there is nothing special about bi/multilingual boys.

Best

Sharon

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Tamar & Yves <tamarmr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
> Our 10 months old son is exposed to 3 languages at home ( each one of
> us is speaking to him his mother- tongue, and we speak English between
> us) and to a 4th one outside.
>
>
> Soon he will be starting Nursery, and we were wondering what language
> it should be in. Is it better to expose him simultaneously to all 4
> languages or should we do it gradually over the first few years of his
> life (It's possible to sign him up to a nursery in my husnband's
> mother tongue (2)/ english (3)/ bi lingual (enviroment+English)(4))
>
>
> We don't want language acquisition to be too much of a burden on him,
> and not sure how many languages he can learn at once.
>
>
> We are aware of the large number of factors affecting the answer, but
> does anyone know or refer us to research done on the specific issues
> of (i) number of languages babies can learn and its implication on
> their emotional state; and (ii) Is it better to expose a baby to those
> languages simultaneously or gradually over the first few years of his
> life.
>
> Thanks,
> Tamar & Yves
>
> --
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
> "Info-CHILDES" group.
> To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com.
> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
> info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com.
> For more options, visit this group at
> http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en.
>
>


-- 
 Dr. Sharon Armon-Lotem, Chair
The Department of English
Tel: +972 3 5318236
The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center
Tel: +972 3 5317159
Bar Ilan University
Ramat Gan, Israel

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group.
To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en.

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/info-childes/attachments/20110509/5a6e76de/attachment.htm>