Abstract The main goal of this study is to investigate the nature of null elements used in German by early successive bilingual Polish-German children. The language pair offers the opportunity to investigate the possibility of cross-linguistic influence in the area of null arguments between two languages which differ significantly in the nature of the null arguments allowed in the grammars. Longitudinal data from four bilingual children who were first exposed to L2 German between the ages of 2;6 and 4;7 years is used in the investigation. The results show that early successive bilinguals have no underlying grammatical representation involving pro in their L2. Neither are the null elements exclusively a result of topic drop, as they are in German, or of discourse drop, as they are in adult Polish grammar. The findings suggest that early bilinguals transfer an L1 strategy of linking null elements to general pragmatic contexts.

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早期连续双语习得中无效论点发展的跨语言影响

摘要 本研究的主要目标是调查早期连续双语波兰-德国儿童在德语中使用的空元素的性质。语言对提供了机会来研究在两种语言之间的空参数领域的跨语言影响的可能性，这两种语言在语法中允许的空参数的性质上有显着差异。调查中使用了四名首次接触 L2 德语的双语儿童的纵向数据，他们的年龄在 2;6 至 4;7 岁之间。结果表明，早期连续双语者在他们的 L2 中没有涉及 pro 的潜在语法表示。空元素也不是像德语那样完全是主题删除的结果，也不是像成人波兰语语法那样是语篇删除的结果。