TY  - GEN
A1  - Krause, Helena
A1  - Bosch, Sina
A1  - Clahsen, Harald
T1  - Morphosyntax in the bilingual mental lexicon
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - Although morphosyntax has been identified as a major source of difficulty for adult (nonnative) language learners, most previous studies have examined a limited set of largely affix-based phenomena. Little is known about word-based morphosyntax in late bilinguals and of how morphosyntax is represented and processed in a nonnative speaker's lexicon. To address these questions, we report results from two behavioral experiments investigating stem variants of strong verbs in German (which encode features such as tense, person, and number) in groups of advanced adult learners as well as native speakers of German. Although the late bilinguals were highly proficient in German, the results of a lexical priming experiment revealed clear native-nonnative differences. We argue that lexical representation and processing relies less on morphosyntactic information in a nonnative than in a native language.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 520 
KW  - morphological structure
KW  - 2nd-language grammar
KW  - inflected nouns
KW  - ER-FMRI
KW  - representation
KW  - sensitivity
KW  - violations
KW  - acquisition
KW  - agreement
KW  - learners
Y1  - 2019
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/41443
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-414431
IS  - 520
ER  -