@misc{WattendorfFestmanWestermannetal.2012,
  author    = {Wattendorf, Elise and Festman, Julia and Westermann, Birgit and Keil, Ursula and Zappatore, Daniela and Franceschini, Rita and Luedi, Georges and Radue, Ernst-Wilhelm and M{\"u}nte, Thomas F. and Rager, G{\"u}nter and Nitsch, Cordula},
  title     = {Early bilingualism influences early and subsequently later acquired languages in cortical regions representing control functions},
  series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  journal   = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  number    = {384},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-404092},
  pages     = {19},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {Early acquisition of a second language influences the development of language abilities and cognitive functions. In the present study, we used functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to investigate the impact of early bilingualism on the organization of the cortical language network during sentence production. Two groups of adult multilinguals, proficient in three languages, were tested on a narrative task; early multilinguals acquired the second language before the age of three years, late multilinguals after the age of nine. All participants learned a third language after nine years of age. Comparison of the two groups revealed substantial differences in language-related brain activity for early as well as late acquired languages. Most importantly, early multilinguals preferentially activated a fronto-striatal network in the left hemisphere, whereas the left posterior superior temporal gyrus (pSTG) was activated to a lesser degree than in late multilinguals. The same brain regions were highlighted in previous studies when a non-target language had to be controlled. Hence the engagement of language control in adult early multilinguals appears to be influenced by the specific learning and acquisition conditions during early childhood. Remarkably, our results reveal that the functional control of early and subsequently later acquired languages is similarly affected, suggesting that language experience has a pervasive influence into adulthood. As such, our findings extend the current understanding of control functions in multilinguals.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Festman2012,
  author    = {Festman, Julia},
  title     = {Language control abilities of late bilinguals},
  series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  journal   = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  number    = {459},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-413930},
  pages     = {14},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {Although all bilinguals encounter cross-language interference (CLI), some bilinguals are more susceptible to interference than others. Here, we report on language performance of late bilinguals (Russian/German) on two bilingual tasks (interview, verbal fluency), their language use and switching habits. The only between-group difference was CLI: one group consistently produced significantly more errors of CLI on both tasks than the other (thereby replicating our findings from a bilingual picture naming task). This striking group difference in language control ability can only be explained by differences in cognitive control, not in language proficiency or language mode.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{ReitererFestman2014,
  author    = {Reiterer, Susanne Maria and Festman, Julia},
  title     = {Special issue: multilingual brains},
  series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  journal   = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  number    = {393},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-404188},
  pages     = {2},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {keine abstracts vorhanden},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{FestmanClahsen2016,
  author    = {Festman, Julia and Clahsen, Harald},
  title     = {How Germans prepare for the English past tense},
  series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  journal   = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  number    = {521},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-41445},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-414455},
  pages     = {487 -- 506},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {Processes involved in late bilinguals' production of morphologically complex words were studied using an event-related brain potentials (ERP) paradigm in which EEGs were recorded during participants' silent productions of English past- and present-tense forms. Twenty-three advanced second language speakers of English (first language [L1] German) were compared to a control group of 19 L1 English speakers from an earlier study. We found a frontocentral negativity for regular relative to irregular past-tense forms (e.g., asked vs. held) during (silent) production, and no difference for the present-tense condition (e.g., asks vs. holds), replicating the ERP effect obtained for the L1 group. This ERP effect suggests that combinatorial processing is involved in producing regular past-tense forms, in both late bilinguals and L1 speakers. We also suggest that this paradigm is a useful tool for future studies of online language production.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{FestmanClahsen2016,
  author    = {Festman, Julia and Clahsen, Harald},
  title     = {How Germans prepare for the English past tense},
  series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  journal   = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  number    = {504},
  issn      = {1866-8364},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-41367},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-413678},
  pages     = {20},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {Processes involved in late bilinguals' production of morphologically complex words were studied using an event-related brain potentials (ERP) paradigm in which EEGs were recorded during participants' silent productions of English past- and present-tense forms. Twenty-three advanced second language speakers of English (first language [L1] German) were compared to a control group of 19 L1 English speakers from an earlier study. We found a frontocentral negativity for regular relative to irregular past-tense forms (e.g., asked vs. held) during (silent) production, and no difference for the present-tense condition (e.g., asks vs. holds), replicating the ERP effect obtained for the L1 group. This ERP effect suggests that combinatorial processing is involved in producing regular past-tense forms, in both late bilinguals and L1 speakers. We also suggest that this paradigm is a useful tool for future studies of online language production.},
  language  = {en}
}