TY  - JOUR
A1  - Budd, Mary-Jane
A1  - Paulmann, Silke
A1  - Barry, Christopher
A1  - Clahsen, Harald
T1  - Producing morphologically complex words: An ERP study with children and adults
T2  - Developmental cognitive neuroscience : a journal for cognitive, affective and social developmental neuroscience
N2  - widely studied morphological phenomenon in psycholinguistic research is the plurals-inside-compounds effect in English, which is the avoidance of regular plural modifiers within compounds (e.g., *rats hunter). The current study employs event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to investigate the production of plurals-inside-compounds in children and adults. We specifically examined the ERP correlates of producing morphologically complex words in 8-year-olds, 12-year-olds and adults, by recording ERPs during the silent production of compounds with plural or singular modifiers. Results for both children and adults revealed a negativity in response to compounds produced from regular plural forms when compared to compounds formed from irregular plurals, indicating a highly specific brain response to a subtle linguistic contrast. Although children performed behaviourally with an adult-like pattern in the task, we found a broader distribution and a considerably later latency in children's brain potentials than in adults', indicating that even in late childhood the brain networks involved in language processing are subject to subtle developmental changes. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
KW  - ERPs
KW  - Morphology
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - Language production
Y1  - 2015
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/39050
SN  - 1878-9293
SN  - 1878-9307
VL  - 12
SP  - 51
EP  - 60
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Oxford
ER  -