Die Schnittstelle Syntax — Pragmatik: Subjektauslassungen bei bilingual deutsch-französisch aufwachsenden Kindern

Pillunat, Antje; Schmitz, Katrin; Müller, Natascha

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“…The universal principle APP, a conversational maxim, determines that if no further conditions are specified, pronouns will be avoided (for a thorough discussion cf. Pillunat, Schmitz & Müller 2006;Schmitz 2007). In non-null-subject-languages like German, the subject can also be omitted: Ø Hab das schon gemacht 'Have it already made'.…”

Section:  the Syntax-pragmatics Interface -Pragmatics Chooses Betwmentioning

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“…Let us have a closer look at the null-subject phenomenon (cf. Pillunat, Schmitz & Müller 2006;Schmitz 2007), a syntactic property for which pragmatics chooses between two possible derivations. Languages like Spanish and Italian do not express subject pronouns, unless subjects carry contrastive stress.…”

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Bilingual first language acquisition at the interface between syntax and pragmatics

Müller¹

2008

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The present article provides an overview of some recent research in bilingual first language acquisition with special reference to Romance languages. It addresses two language contact phenomena, language mixing at the lexical level and crosslinguistic influence at the syntactic level. For both contact phenomena, there is evidence that they are unrelated to language dominance (as measured in terms of MLU). Language mixing is negatively correlated with the number of utterances per minute, a measure for language fluency. Cross-linguistic influence at the syntactic level is due to computational complexity which is caused for example by the invasive interplay of pragmatics and syntax. This kind of interplay will be discussed on the basis of the presence or absence of the null-subject property, comparing Italian and German, and by studying the presence or absence of object clitics, comparing French and German. Since cross-linguistic influence affects bilingual individuals to different degrees (sometimes referred to as individual variation), we discuss the assumption that the degree to which the influence manifests itself differs as a function of fluency (measured in words produced per minute). The more fluent the child is in the language with the computationally complex analysis, the less the effect of cross-linguistic influence. In sum, the language which exhibits influence is determined by computational complexity as defined, for example, by the invasive interplay between pragmatics and syntax. The degree of manifestation of the influence depends on fluency in the computationally complex language.

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Section:  the Syntax-pragmatics Interface -Pragmatics Chooses Betwmentioning

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Section:  the Syntax-pragmatics Interface -Pragmatics Chooses Betwmentioning

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Bilingual first language acquisition at the interface between syntax and pragmatics

Müller¹

2008

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“…This is due to the fact that in German, sentences with a realized or an empty subject are functionally equivalent, which, in Italian, they are not. In German they just reflect different registers-subject omission representing a rather informal register, subject realization a rather formal one (see Pillunat et al, 2006).…”

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“…As a rule, subject realization and omission is neutral with respect to discourse-pragmatics, omissions reflecting a rather informal register (cf Pillunat et al, 2006;Müller and Patuto, 2009;Patuto,. …”

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Cross-linguistic influence in bilingual children: Can input frequency account for it?

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“…This acceleration effect could be due to the (positive) influence of German, which is a non-null-subject language. Notice, however, that Jansen 2015and Patuto (2012) observe (target-deviant) null subjects in the bilinguals' French, as well as in their German (Pillunat et al 2006;Schmitz et al 2011) until around the age of 2;6. The Right-Dislocation Approach would struggle to explain the simultaneous absence of postverbal subjects and the presence of (target-deviant) null-subjects in bilingual French.…”

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French Postverbal Subjects: A Comparison of Monolingual, Bilingual, Trilingual, and Multilingual French

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Müller

2018

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Die Schnittstelle Syntax — Pragmatik: Subjektauslassungen bei bilingual deutsch-französisch aufwachsenden Kindern

Cited by 10 publications

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Bilingual first language acquisition at the interface between syntax and pragmatics

Bilingual first language acquisition at the interface between syntax and pragmatics

Cross-linguistic influence in bilingual children: Can input frequency account for it?

French Postverbal Subjects: A Comparison of Monolingual, Bilingual, Trilingual, and Multilingual French

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