The master's thesis discusses bilingualism and focuses on childhood bilingualism. It illustrates the problems of defining a discipline and describes the types of bilingualism, with an emphasis on simultaneous bilingualism. Next, the important role of parents in the development of their child's bilingualism is described. Different strategies of bilingual upbringing are explained. These are differentiated according to whether the child grows up in a monolingual expatriate family or in a bilingual family. There are many factors that influence the development of bilingualism. For this reason, case studies are the main focus in this field. The specific nature of studying bilingualism is reflected on the example of two studies on bilingualism, the results of which are presented in three articles (Vesna Požgaj Hadži in Simona Kranjc: O simultanom slovensko-hrvatskom bilingvizmu (na primjeru slovensko-hrvatskog bilingvala), Maria Zofia Wtorkowska: Usvajanje pregibnostnih vzorcev izbranih imenskih besednih vrst pri dvojezičnem otroku and Fleksja czasownika u dziecka dwujęzycznego). The above-mentioned research shows the strong influence of the language of the environment on children's bilingual development, with examples of the most persistent Slovenian interference in Croatian and Polish.
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