Picture descriptions by 20 children in the age range of 4-13 years. Half of the children were Italian-Dutch bilinguals and the other 10 were monolinguals (5 Dutch monolinguals and 5 Italian monolinguals). There are four different stories, all made out of about ten pictures. The children were asked to tell the story by looking at the pictures. The book was made in such a way that each two following pictures were showed at once. This to create a situation in which the child would be confronted with a situation in which it had to deal with the pragmatic rules considering subject omission. When on the first picture, for example, the rabbit was introduced for the first time (building a tower from bricks), on the second picture the same rabbit was shown again (now he finished the tower). In this specific situation the pragmatic rule of the Italian language would lead to the omission of the subject (the rabbit) in the second time it was mentioned. The child would say something like: “A rabbit is building a tower, and now (he) has finished.” In the Dutch case the child could use a weak pronoun for the second time the subject was mentioned, in order to express the fact that this subject did contain old information. The front page of every story does contain all the characters, to be sure that the children did distinguish them well. This could have influenced, though, there judgment on what was old information. Every recording session there were three persons only: two children (subjects) and me. One child did tell the story to the other child and to me, while the other child was only listening. For the second child I did use another story. I collected the data of 10 bilingual children (Dutch/ Italian) and 10 monolingual children (4 Italian children and 6 Dutch children), all in the age range from 4;3.1 to 13:4.5. The monolingual children of the control group were recorded in their own homes (the Italian monolingual children) or at their school (the Dutch monolingual children). The recordings were made using a Minidisc recorder and transcribed by the researcher. Although the transcription is not phonetic, there is an attempt to capture some of the features of the Roman dialect spoken by the children. All the children’s names are replaced by pseudonyms. It is possible to see if the child is a boy or a girl though. For the Italian pseudonyms counts that if a name ends with an ‘o’, this name is masculine. For the Dutch children, the following names are masculine: Sipke, Tiuri and Piak.