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extends to language maintenance
• Polish families who want their children to retain Polish
– make enormous efforts to organise their lives round
complementary schools
– classes taught by voluntary teachers
– crucially -> send children to grandparents in Poland for the
summer
• children benefit from the opportunity to acquire the
subtle vernacular patterns from native speakers of
Polish
(Regan and Nestor 2010, 2011)