TY  - JOUR
A1  - Uygun, Serkan
A1  - Clahsen, Harald
T1  - Morphological processing in heritage speakers
BT  - a masked priming study on the Turkish aorist
JF  - Bilingualism : language and cognition
N2  - 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.
KW  - Turkish
KW  - morphology
KW  - aorist
KW  - priming
KW  - variability
KW  - processing
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728920000577
SN  - 1366-7289
SN  - 1469-1841
VL  - 24
IS  - 3
SP  - 415
EP  - 426
PB  - Cambridge Univ. Press
CY  - Cambridge
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Clahsen, Harald
A1  - Rothweiler, Monika
A1  - Sterner, Franziska
A1  - Chilla, Solveig
T1  - Linguistic markers of specific language impairment in bilingual children: the case of verb morphology
JF  - Clinical linguistics & phonetics
KW  - Bilingualism
KW  - German
KW  - morphology
KW  - SLI
KW  - Turkish
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3109/02699206.2014.886726
SN  - 0269-9206
SN  - 1464-5076
VL  - 28
IS  - 9
SP  - 709
EP  - 721
PB  - Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - London
ER  -