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2.4 Bilingual acquisition environments

- Two main criteria: one person → one language, family language ≠ community language
- In everyday bilingual communication, criteria such as one person → one language and family language ≠ community language are frequently overruled by other criteria
- Bilingual persons/parents have difficulties acting as monolinguals
- Often the type of language distribution, as well as bilinguality in general, are not decided upon, but are imposed by circumstances