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
JF  - 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
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2014.11.002
SN  - 1878-9293
SN  - 1878-9307
VL  - 12
SP  - 51
EP  - 60
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Oxford
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Krause, Helena
A1  - Bosch, Sina
A1  - Clahsen, Harald
T1  - Morphosyntax in the bilingual mental lexicon : An Experimental Study of Strong Stems in German
JF  - Studies in second language acquisition
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263114000564
SN  - 0272-2631
SN  - 1470-1545
VL  - 37
IS  - 4
SP  - 597
EP  - 621
PB  - Cambridge Univ. Press
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Clahsen, Harald
A1  - Gerth, Sabrina
A1  - Heyer, Vera
A1  - Schott, Esther
T1  - Morphology constrains native and non-native word formation in different ways Evidence from plurals inside compounds
JF  - The mental lexicon
N2  - The role of morphological and syntactic information in non-native second language (L2) comprehension is controversial. Some have argued that late bilinguals rapidly integrate grammatical cues with other information sources during reading or listening in the same way as native speakers. Others claim that structural cues are underused in L2 processing. We examined different kinds of modifiers inside compounds (e.g. singulars vs. plurals, *rat eater vs. rats eater) with respect to this controversy which are subject to both structural and nonstructural constraints. Two offline and two online (eye-movement) experiments were performed examining the role of these constraints in spoken language comprehension of English and German, testing 77 advanced L2 learners. We also compared the L2 groups to corresponding groups of native speakers. Our results suggest that despite native-like sensitivity to the compounding constraints, late bilinguals rely more on non-structural constraints and are less able to revise their initial interpretations than L1 comprehenders.
KW  - morphological processing
KW  - compounding
KW  - visual world paradigm
KW  - eye movement
KW  - bilingualism
KW  - second language
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1075/ml.10.1.03cla
SN  - 1871-1340
SN  - 1871-1375
VL  - 10
IS  - 1
SP  - 53
EP  - 87
PB  - Benjamins
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -