Einige Bemerkungen zur dreisprachigen Erziehung (Polnisch-Esperanto-Deutsch) meiner Kinder

Abstract

The article contains some remarks concerning the trilingual development of my two children. Research on children’s language development and bilingualism has been known mainly in historic natural languages studies. So far, international auxiliary languages like Esperanto have been hardly considered so far in the research on language acquisition. Including Esperanto in such considerations yields valuable insight and findings. Interference and other peculiarities of Polish, German and Esperanto in the earlier period of language acquisition are illustrated with the aid of examples collected by the author of this article. Examples are related to spelling, vocabulary, morphology, syntax and semantics.

Keywords

• children’s language development
• Esperanto
• bilingualism
• language acquisition