Abstract Omission of clitics is often considered a critical marker of language development in children. For this reason, clitic omission in language development has been studied crosslinguistically. Results on clitic production reveal that languages differ with respect to the rates at which clitics are omitted by children, as well as on the duration of the clitic omission stages. This paper compares clitic omission by monolingual and bilingual children acquiring European Portuguese – a language with both clitics and null objects – and Capeverdean Creole – a language with clitics in which null objects are ruled out. We show that omission is only found in monolingual Portuguese, and in bilingual Capeverdean. These results confirm earlier findings on the precocious sensitivity to the availability of null objects, and signal object drop as a critical distinguishing factor for differentiating bilinguals and monolinguals.

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葡萄牙和Capeverdean儿童的文教活动：双语遗漏

摘要省略气候通常被认为是儿童语言发展的重要标志。因此，跨语言研究了语言发展中的气候遗漏。关于气候生产的结果表明，语言在儿童遗弃气候的比率以及气候遗漏阶段的持续时间方面存在差异。本文比较了单语和双语儿童获取欧洲葡萄牙语（既有气候又有空对象的语言）和Capeverdean Creole（有排除空对象的有气候的语言）的气候遗漏。我们表明，仅在葡萄牙语和Capeverdean双语中发现遗漏。这些结果证实了较早发现的对空对象可用性的早熟敏感性的发现，