@misc{ClahsenPaulmannBuddetal.2018,
  author    = {Clahsen, Harald and Paulmann, Silke and Budd, Mary-Jane and Barry, Christopher},
  title     = {Morphological encoding beyond slots and fillers},
  series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  journal   = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  number    = {550},
  issn      = {1866-8364},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-42648},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-426481},
  pages     = {16},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {One important organizational property of morphology is competition. Different means of expression are in conflict with each other for encoding the same grammatical function. In the current study, we examined the nature of this control mechanism by testing the formation of comparative adjectives in English during language production. Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded during cued silent production, the first study of this kind for comparative adjective formation. We specifically examined the ERP correlates of producing synthetic relative to analytic comparatives, e.g. angriervs. more angry. A frontal, bilaterally distributed, enhanced negative-going waveform for analytic comparatives (vis-a-vis synthetic ones) emerged approximately 300ms after the (silent) production cue. We argue that this ERP effect reflects a control mechanism that constrains grammatically-based computational processes (viz. more comparative formation). We also address the possibility that this particular ERP effect may belong to a family of previously observed negativities reflecting cognitive control monitoring, rather than morphological encoding processes per se.},
  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}
}