@misc{VerissimoHeyerJacobetal.2017,
  author    = {Ver{\´i}ssimo, Joao Marques and Heyer, Vera and Jacob, Gunnar and Clahsen, Harald},
  title     = {Selective effects of age of acquisition on morphological priming},
  series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  journal   = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  number    = {486},
  issn      = {1866-8364},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-412611},
  pages     = {13},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {Is there an ideal time window for language acquisition after which nativelike representation and processing are unattainable? Although this question has been heavily debated, no consensus has been reached. Here, we present evidence for a sensitive period in language development and show that it is specific to grammar. We conducted a masked priming task with a group of Turkish-German bilinguals and examined age of acquisition (AoA) effects on the processing of complex words. We compared a subtle but meaningful linguistic contrast, that between grammatical inflection and lexical-based derivation. The results showed a highly selective AoA effect on inflectional (but not derivational) priming. In addition, the effect displayed a discontinuity indicative of a sensitive period: Priming from inflected forms was nativelike when acquisition started before the age of 5 but declined with increasing AoA. We conclude that the acquisition of morphological rules expressing morphosyntactic properties is constrained by maturational factors.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{VerissimoFarhyClahsen2016,
  author    = {Ver{\´i}ssimo, Joao Marques and Farhy, Yael and Clahsen, Harald},
  title     = {Universal and particular in morphological processing},
  series = {Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology},
  volume    = {71},
  journal   = {Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology},
  number    = {5},
  doi       = {10.1080/17470218.2017.1310917},
  pages     = {1125 -- 1132},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {Do properties of individual languages shape the mechanisms by which they are processed? By virtue of their nonconcatenative morphological structure, the recognition of complex words in Semitic languages has been argued to rely strongly on morphological information and on decomposition into root and pattern constituents. Here, we report results from a masked priming experiment in Hebrew in which we contrasted verb forms belonging to two morphological classes, Paal and Piel, which display similar properties, but crucially differ on whether they are extended to novel verbs. Verbs from the open-class Piel elicited familiar root priming effects, but verbs from the closed-class Paal did not. Our findings indicate that, similarly to other (e.g., Indo-European) languages, down-to-the-root decomposition in Hebrew does not apply to stems of non-productive verbal classes. We conclude that the Semitic word processor is less unique than previously thought: Although it operates on morphological units that are combined in a non-linear way, it engages the same universal mechanisms of storage and computation as those seen in other languages.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{VerissimoHeyerJacobetal.2018,
  author    = {Verissimo, Joao Marques and Heyer, Vera and Jacob, Gunnar and Clahsen, Harald},
  title     = {Selective effects of age of acquisition on morphological priming},
  series = {Language acquisition : a journal of developmental linguistics},
  volume    = {25},
  journal   = {Language acquisition : a journal of developmental linguistics},
  number    = {3},
  publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group},
  address   = {Abingdon},
  issn      = {1048-9223},
  doi       = {10.1080/10489223.2017.1346104},
  pages     = {315 -- 326},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {Is there an ideal time window for language acquisition after which nativelike representation and processing are unattainable? Although this question has been heavily debated, no consensus has been reached. Here, we present evidence for a sensitive period in language development and show that it is specific to grammar. We conducted a masked priming task with a group of Turkish-German bilinguals and examined age of acquisition (AoA) effects on the processing of complex words. We compared a subtle but meaningful linguistic contrast, that between grammatical inflection and lexical-based derivation. The results showed a highly selective AoA effect on inflectional (but not derivational) priming. In addition, the effect displayed a discontinuity indicative of a sensitive period: Priming from inflected forms was nativelike when acquisition started before the age of 5 but declined with increasing AoA. We conclude that the acquisition of morphological rules expressing morphosyntactic properties is constrained by maturational factors.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{VerissimoClahsen2014,
  author    = {Verissimo, Joao Marques and Clahsen, Harald},
  title     = {Variables and similarity in linguistic generalization: Evidence from inflectional classes in Portuguese},
  series = {Journal of memory and language},
  volume    = {76},
  journal   = {Journal of memory and language},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  address   = {San Diego},
  issn      = {0749-596X},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.jml.2014.06.001},
  pages     = {61 -- 79},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {Two opposing viewpoints have been advanced to account for morphological productivity, one according to which some knowledge is couched in the form of operations over variables, and another in which morphological generalization is primarily determined by similarity. We investigated this controversy by examining the generalization of Portuguese verb stems, which fall into one of three conjugation classes. In Study 1, an elicited production task revealed that the generalization of 2nd and 3rd conjugation stems is influenced by the degree of phonological similarity between novel roots and existing verbs, whereas the 1st conjugation generalizes beyond similarity. In Study 2, we directly contrasted two distinct computational implementations of conjugation class assignment in how well they matched the human data: a similarity-driven model that captures phonological similarities, and a dual-mechanism model that implements an explicit distinction between context-free and similarity-based generalizations. The similarity-driven model consistently underestimated 1st conjugation responses and overestimated proportions of 2nd and 3rd conjugation responses, especially for novel verbs that are highly similar to existing verbs of those classes. In contrast, the expected proportions produced by the dual-mechanism model were statistically indistinguishable from human responses. We conclude that both context-free and context-sensitive processes determine the generalization of conjugations in Portuguese, and that similarity-based algorithms of morphological acquisition are insufficient to exhibit default-like generalization. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{UygunClahsen2021,
  author    = {Uygun, Serkan and Clahsen, Harald},
  title     = {Morphological processing in heritage speakers},
  series = {Bilingualism : language and cognition},
  volume    = {24},
  journal   = {Bilingualism : language and cognition},
  number    = {3},
  publisher = {Cambridge Univ. Press},
  address   = {Cambridge},
  issn      = {1366-7289},
  doi       = {10.1017/S1366728920000577},
  pages     = {415 -- 426},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {Previous research has shown that heritage speakers struggle with inflectional morphology. 'Limitations of online resources' for processing a non-dominant language has been claimed as one possible reason for these difficulties. To date, however, there is very little experimental evidence on real-time language processing in heritage speakers. Here we report results from a masked priming experiment with 97 bilingual (Turkish/German) heritage speakers and a control group of 40 non-heritage speakers of Turkish examining regular and irregular forms of the Turkish aorist. We found that, for the regular aorist, heritage speakers use the same morphological decomposition mechanism ('affix stripping') as control speakers, whereas for processing irregularly inflected forms they exhibited more variability (i.e., less homogeneous performance) than the control group. Heritage speakers also demonstrated semantic priming effects. At a more general level, these results indicate that heritage speakers draw on multiple sources of information for recognizing morphologically complex words.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{SilvaGerthClahsen2013,
  author    = {Silva, Renita and Gerth, Sabrina and Clahsen, Harald},
  title     = {Morphological constraints in children's spoken language comprehension - a visual world study of plurals inside compounds in English},
  series = {Cognition : international journal of cognitive science},
  volume    = {129},
  journal   = {Cognition : international journal of cognitive science},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  address   = {Amsterdam},
  issn      = {0010-0277},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.cognition.2013.08.003},
  pages     = {457 -- 469},
  year      = {2013},
  abstract  = {Many previous studies have shown that the human language processor is capable of rapidly integrating information from different sources during reading or listening. Yet, little is known about how this ability develops from child to adulthood. To gain insight into how children (in comparison to adults) handle different kinds of linguistic information during on-line language comprehension, the current study investigates a well-known morphological phenomenon that is subject to both structural and semantic constraints, the plurals-in-compounds effect, i.e. the dislike of plural (specifically regular plural) modifiers inside compounds (e.g. rats eater). We examined 96 seven-to-twelve-year-old children and a control group of 32 adults measuring their eye-gaze changes in response to compound-internal plural and singular forms. Our results indicate that children rely more upon structural properties of language (in the present case, morphological cues) early in development and that the ability to efficiently integrate information from multiple sources takes time for children to reach adult-like levels.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{RubergRothweilerVerissimoetal.2019,
  author    = {Ruberg, Tobias and Rothweiler, Monika and Ver{\´i}ssimo, Jo{\~a}o Marques and Clahsen, Harald},
  title     = {Childhood bilingualism and Specific Language Impairment},
  series = {Zweitver{\"o}ffentlichungen der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  journal   = {Zweitver{\"o}ffentlichungen der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  number    = {3},
  issn      = {1866-8364},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-51809},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-518095},
  pages     = {15},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {This study addresses the question of whether and how growing up with more than one language shapes a child's language impairment. Our focus is on Specific Language Impairment (SLI) in bilingual (Turkish-German) children. We specifically investigated a range of phenomena related to the so-called CP (Complementizer Phrase) in German, the hierarchically highest layer of syntactic clause structure, which has been argued to be particularly affected in children with SLI. Spontaneous speech data were examined from bilingual children with SLI in comparison to two comparison groups: (i) typically-developing bilingual children, (ii) monolingual children with SLI. We found that despite persistent difficulty with subject-verb agreement, the two groups of children with SLI did not show any impairment of the CP-domain. We conclude that while subject-verb agreement is a suitable linguistic marker of SLI in German-speaking children, for both monolingual and bilingual ones, 'vulnerability of the CP-domain' is not.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{RubergRothweilerVerissimoetal.2019,
  author    = {Ruberg, Tobias and Rothweiler, Monika and Ver{\´i}ssimo, Jo{\~a}o Marques and Clahsen, Harald},
  title     = {Childhood bilingualism and Specific Language Impairment},
  series = {Bilingualism: Language and Cognition},
  volume    = {23},
  journal   = {Bilingualism: Language and Cognition},
  number    = {3},
  publisher = {Cambridge Univ. Press},
  address   = {Cambridge},
  issn      = {1366-7289},
  doi       = {10.1017/S1366728919000580},
  pages     = {668 -- 680},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {This study addresses the question of whether and how growing up with more than one language shapes a child's language impairment. Our focus is on Specific Language Impairment (SLI) in bilingual (Turkish-German) children. We specifically investigated a range of phenomena related to the so-called CP (Complementizer Phrase) in German, the hierarchically highest layer of syntactic clause structure, which has been argued to be particularly affected in children with SLI. Spontaneous speech data were examined from bilingual children with SLI in comparison to two comparison groups: (i) typically-developing bilingual children, (ii) monolingual children with SLI. We found that despite persistent difficulty with subject-verb agreement, the two groups of children with SLI did not show any impairment of the CP-domain. We conclude that while subject-verb agreement is a suitable linguistic marker of SLI in German-speaking children, for both monolingual and bilingual ones, 'vulnerability of the CP-domain' is not.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{RothweilerChillaClahsen2012,
  author    = {Rothweiler, Monika and Chilla, Solveig and Clahsen, Harald},
  title     = {Subject-verb agreement in specific language impairment},
  series = {Bilingualism : language and cognition.},
  volume    = {15},
  journal   = {Bilingualism : language and cognition.},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {Cambridge Univ. Press},
  address   = {New York},
  issn      = {1366-7289},
  doi       = {10.1017/S136672891100037X},
  pages     = {39 -- 57},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {This study investigates phenomena that have been claimed to be indicative of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) in German, focusing on subject-verb agreement marking. Longitudinal data from fourteen German-speaking children with SLI, seven monolingual and seven Turkish-German successive bilingual children, were examined. We found similar patterns of impairment in the two participant groups. Both the monolingual and the bilingual children with SLI had correct (present vs. preterit) tense marking and produced syntactically complex sentences such as embedded clauses and wh-questions, but were limited in reliably producing correct agreement-marked verb forms. These contrasts indicate that agreement marking is impaired in German-speaking children with SLI, without any necessary concurrent deficits in either the CP-domain or in tense marking. Our results also show that it is possible to identify SLI from an early successive bilingual child's performance in one of her two languages.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{RothweilerChillaClahsen2012,
  author    = {Rothweiler, Monika and Chilla, Solveig and Clahsen, Harald},
  title     = {Subject-verb agreement in Specific Language Impairment},
  series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  journal   = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  number    = {510},
  issn      = {1866-8364},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-41512},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-415122},
  pages     = {19},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {This study investigates phenomena that have been claimed to be indicative of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) in German, focusing on subject-verb agreement marking. Longitudinal data from fourteen German-speaking children with SLI, seven monolingual and seven Turkish-German successive bilingual children, were examined. We found similar patterns of impairment in the two participant groups. Both the monolingual and the bilingual children with SLI had correct (present vs. preterit) tense marking and produced syntactically complex sentences such as embedded clauses and wh-questions, but were limited in reliably producing correct agreement-marked verb forms. These contrasts indicate that agreement marking is impaired in German-speaking children with SLI, without any necessary concurrent deficits in either the CP-domain or in tense marking. Our results also show that it is possible to identify SLI from an early successive bilingual child's performance in one of her two languages.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{ReifegersteElinClahsen2018,
  author    = {Reifegerste, Jana and Elin, Kirill and Clahsen, Harald},
  title     = {Persistent differences between native speakers and late bilinguals},
  series = {Bilingualism : language and cognition},
  volume    = {22},
  journal   = {Bilingualism : language and cognition},
  number    = {3},
  publisher = {Cambridge Univ. Press},
  address   = {New York},
  issn      = {1366-7289},
  doi       = {10.1017/S1366728918000615},
  pages     = {425 -- 440},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {Previous research with younger adults has revealed differences between native (L1) and non-native late-bilingual (L2) speakers with respect to how morphologically complex words are processed. This study examines whether these L1/L2 differences persist into old age. We tested masked-priming effects for derived and inflected word forms in older L1 and L2 speakers of German and compared them to results from younger L1 and L2 speakers on the same experiment (mean ages: 62 vs. 24). We found longer overall response times paired with better accuracy scores for older (L1 and L2) participants than for younger participants. The priming patterns, however, were not affected by chronological age. While both L1 and L2 speakers showed derivational priming, only the L1 speakers demonstrated inflectional priming. We argue that general performance in both L1 and L2 is affected by aging, but that the more profound differences between native and non-native processing persist into old age.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{NakanoIkemotoJacobetal.2016,
  author    = {Nakano, Yoko and Ikemoto, Yu and Jacob, Gunnar and Clahsen, Harald},
  title     = {How Orthography Modulates Morphological Priming},
  series = {Frontiers in psychology},
  volume    = {7},
  journal   = {Frontiers in psychology},
  publisher = {Frontiers Research Foundation},
  address   = {Lausanne},
  issn      = {1664-1078},
  doi       = {10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00316},
  pages     = {10},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {The current study investigates to what extent masked morphological priming is modulated by language-particular properties, specifically by its writing system. We present results from two masked priming experiments investigating the processing of complex Japanese words written in less common (moraic) scripts. In Experiment 1, participants performed lexical decisions on target verbs; these were preceded by primes which were either (i) a past-tense form of the same verb, (ii) a stem-related form with the epenthetic vowel -i, (iii) a semantically-related form, and (iv) a phonologically-related form. Significant priming effects were obtained for prime types (i), (ii), and (iii), but not for (iv). This pattern of results differs from previous findings on languages with alphabetic scripts, which found reliable masked priming effects for morphologically related prime/target pairs of type (i), but not for non-affixal and semantically-related primes of types (ii), and (iii). In Experiment 2, we measured priming effects for prime/target pairs which are neither morphologically, semantically, phonologically nor - as presented in their moraic scripts—orthographically related, but which—in their commonly written form—share the same kanji, which are logograms adopted from Chinese. The results showed a significant priming effect, with faster lexical-decision times for kanji-related prime/target pairs relative to unrelated ones. We conclude that affix-stripping is insufficient to account for masked morphological priming effects across languages, but that language-particular properties (in the case of Japanese, the writing system) affect the processing of (morphologically) complex words.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{NakanoIkemotoJacobetal.2016,
  author    = {Nakano, Yoko and Ikemoto, Yu and Jacob, Gunnar and Clahsen, Harald},
  title     = {How Orthography Modulates Morphological Priming},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-91692},
  pages     = {10},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {The current study investigates to what extent masked morphological priming is modulated by language-particular properties, specifically by its writing system. We present results from two masked priming experiments investigating the processing of complex Japanese words written in less common (moraic) scripts. In Experiment 1, participants performed lexical decisions on target verbs; these were preceded by primes which were either (i) a past-tense form of the same verb, (ii) a stem-related form with the epenthetic vowel -i, (iii) a semantically-related form, and (iv) a phonologically-related form. Significant priming effects were obtained for prime types (i), (ii), and (iii), but not for (iv). This pattern of results differs from previous findings on languages with alphabetic scripts, which found reliable masked priming effects for morphologically related prime/target pairs of type (i), but not for non-affixal and semantically-related primes of types (ii), and (iii). In Experiment 2, we measured priming effects for prime/target pairs which are neither morphologically, semantically, phonologically nor - as presented in their moraic scripts—orthographically related, but which—in their commonly written form—share the same kanji, which are logograms adopted from Chinese. The results showed a significant priming effect, with faster lexical-decision times for kanji-related prime/target pairs relative to unrelated ones. We conclude that affix-stripping is insufficient to account for masked morphological priming effects across languages, but that language-particular properties (in the case of Japanese, the writing system) affect the processing of (morphologically) complex words.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{NakanoIkemotoJacobetal.2016,
  author    = {Nakano, Yoko and Ikemoto, Yu and Jacob, Gunnar and Clahsen, Harald},
  title     = {How Orthography Modulates Morphological Priming: Subliminal Kanji Activation in Japanese},
  series = {Frontiers in psychology},
  volume    = {7},
  journal   = {Frontiers in psychology},
  publisher = {Frontiers Research Foundation},
  address   = {Lausanne},
  issn      = {1664-1078},
  doi       = {10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00316},
  pages     = {10},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {The current study investigates to what extent masked morphological priming is modulated by language-particular properties, specifically by its writing system. We present results from two masked priming experiments investigating the processing of complex Japanese words written in less common (moraic) scripts. In Experiment 1, participants performed lexical decisions on target verbs; these were preceded by primes which were either (i) a past-tense form of the same verb, (ii) a stem-related form with the epenthetic vowel-i, (iii) a semantically-related form, and (iv) a phonologically-related form. Significant priming effects were obtained for prime types (i), (ii), and (iii), but not for (iv). This pattern of results differs from previous findings on languages with alphabetic scripts, which found reliable masked priming effects for morphologically related prime/target pairs of type (i), but not for non-affixal and semantically-related primes of types (ii), and (iii). In Experiment 2, we measured priming effects for prime/target pairs which are neither morphologically, semantically, phonologically nor - as presented in their moraic scripts orthographically related, but which in their commonly written form share the same kanji, which are logograms adopted from Chinese. The results showed a significant priming effect, with faster lexical-decision times for kanji-related prime/target pairs relative to unrelated ones. We conclude that affix-stripping is insufficient to account for masked morphological priming effects across languages, but that language-particular properties (in the case of Japanese, the writing system) affect the processing of (morphologically) complex words.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{MoscaClahsen2016,
  author    = {Mosca, Michela and Clahsen, Harald},
  title     = {Examining language switching in bilinguals: The role of preparation time},
  series = {Bilingualism : language and cognition.},
  volume    = {19},
  journal   = {Bilingualism : language and cognition.},
  publisher = {Cambridge Univ. Press},
  address   = {New York},
  issn      = {1366-7289},
  doi       = {10.1017/S1366728915000693},
  pages     = {415 -- 424},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {Much research on language control in bilinguals has relied on the interpretation of the costs of switching between two languages. Of the two types of costs that are linked to language control, switching costs are assumed to be transient in nature and modulated by trial-specific manipulations (e.g., by preparation time), while mixing costs are supposed to be more stable and less affected by trial-specific manipulations. The present study investigated the effect of preparation time on switching and mixing costs, revealing that both types of costs can be influenced by trial-specific manipulations.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{MoscaClahsen2016,
  author    = {Mosca, Michela and Clahsen, Harald},
  title     = {Examining language switching in bilinguals},
  series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  journal   = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  number    = {451},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-413752},
  pages     = {10},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {Much research on language control in bilinguals has relied on the interpretation of the costs of switching between two languages. Of the two types of costs that are linked to language control, switching costs are assumed to be transient in nature and modulated by trial-specific manipulations (e.g., by preparation time), while mixing costs are supposed to be more stable and less affected by trial-specific manipulations. The present study investigated the effect of preparation time on switching and mixing costs, revealing that both types of costs can be influenced by trial-specific manipulations.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{LeminenLehtonenBozicetal.2016,
  author    = {Leminen, Alina and Lehtonen, Minna and Bozic, Mirjana and Clahsen, Harald},
  title     = {Editorial},
  series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  journal   = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  number    = {441},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-407243},
  pages     = {3},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {kein abstract vorhanden},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{LeminenLehtonenBozicetal.2016,
  author    = {Leminen, Alina and Lehtonen, Minna and Bozic, Mirjana and Clahsen, Harald},
  title     = {Editorial: Morphologically Complex Words in the Mind/Brain},
  series = {Frontiers in human neuroscienc},
  volume    = {10},
  journal   = {Frontiers in human neuroscienc},
  publisher = {Frontiers Research Foundation},
  address   = {Lausanne},
  issn      = {1662-5161},
  doi       = {10.3389/fnhum.2016.00047},
  pages     = {150 -- 160},
  year      = {2016},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{LeminenClahsen2014,
  author    = {Leminen, Alina and Clahsen, Harald},
  title     = {Brain potentials to inflected adjectives: Beyond storage and decomposition},
  series = {Brain research : an international multidisciplinary journal devoted to fundamental research in the brain sciences},
  volume    = {1543},
  journal   = {Brain research : an international multidisciplinary journal devoted to fundamental research in the brain sciences},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  address   = {Amsterdam},
  issn      = {0006-8993},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.brainres.2013.10.038},
  pages     = {223 -- 234},
  year      = {2014},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{KrauseBoschClahsen2015,
  author    = {Krause, Helena and Bosch, Sina and Clahsen, Harald},
  title     = {Morphosyntax in the bilingual mental lexicon},
  series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  journal   = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  number    = {520},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-41443},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-414431},
  pages     = {25},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {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.},
  language  = {en}
}