TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gerth, Sabrina
A1  - Otto, Constanze
A1  - Felser, Claudia
A1  - Nam, Yunju
T1  - Strength of garden-path effects in native and non-native speakers’ processing of object-subject ambiguities
JF  - International journal of bilingualism : cross-disciplinary, cross-linguistic studies of language behavior
N2  - Aims and objectives: Our study addresses the following research questions: To what extent is L2 comprehenders’ online sensitivity to morphosyntactic disambiguation cues affected by L1 background? Does noticing the error signal trigger successful reanalysis in both L1 and L2 comprehension? Can previous findings suggesting that case is a better reanalysis cue than agreement be replicated and extended to L2 processing when using closely matched materials? Design/methodology/approach: We carried out a self-paced reading study using temporarily ambiguous object-initial sentences in German. These were disambiguated either by number marking on the verb or by nominative case marking on the subject. End-of-trial comprehension questions probed whether or not our participants ultimately succeeded in computing the correct interpretation. Data and analysis: We tested a total of 121 participants (25 Italian, 32 Russian, 32 Korean and 32 native German speakers), measuring their word-by-word reading times and comprehension accuracy. The data were analysed using linear mixed-effects and logistic regression modelling. Findings/conclusions: All three learner groups showed online sensitivity to both case and agreement disambiguation cues. Noticing case disambiguations did not necessarily lead to a correct interpretation, whereas noticing agreement disambiguations did. We conclude that intermediate to advanced learners are sensitive to morphosyntactic interpretation cues during online processing regardless of whether or not corresponding grammatical distinctions exist in their L1. Our results also suggest that case is not generally a better reanalysis cue than agreement. Significance/implications: L1 influence on L2 processing is more limited than might be expected. Contra previous findings, even intermediate learners show sensitivity to both agreement and case information during processing.
KW  - Ambiguity resolution
KW  - second language processing
KW  - self-paced-reading
KW  - case
KW  - agreement
KW  - German
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/1367006915604401
SN  - 1367-0069
SN  - 1756-6878
VL  - 21
SP  - 125
EP  - 144
PB  - Sage Publ.
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Klassert, Annegret
A1  - Bormann, Sarah
A1  - Festman, Julia
A1  - Gerth, Sabrina
T1  - Primary School Children’s Spelling of Consonant Clusters and Morphological Awareness
T1  - Rechtschreibung von Konsonantenclustern und morphologische Bewusstheit bei Grundschüler_innen
JF  - Zeitschrift für Entwicklungspsychologie und pädagogische Psychologie
N2  - Die vorliegenden Studien untersuchen die Entwicklung der Rechtschreibfähigkeit für finale Konsonantencluster im Deutschen und die ihr zugrundeliegenden Strategien bei Erst- bis Drittklässler_innen (N = 209). Dazu wurde der Einfluss der morphologischen Komplexität (poly- vs. monomorphematische Cluster) auf die Rechtschreibung qualitativ und quantitativ analysiert, sowie mit einer Messung zur morphologischen Bewusstheit korreliert. Von der ersten Klasse an zeigt sich eine hohe Korrektheit in der Schreibung und somit eine sprachspezifisch schnelle Entwicklung der alphabetischen Rechtschreibstrategie für finale Konsonantencluster. Der Einfluss morphologischer Verarbeitungsprozesse wurde allerdings erst für die Drittklässler_innen gefunden. Obwohl bereits die Erstklässler_innen gut entwickelte morphologische Bewusstheit zeigten, scheinen sie noch nicht in der Lage zu sein, diese bei der Rechtschreibung anzuwenden. Die Ergebnisse werden im Kontrast zu den umfangreicher vorliegenden Befunden für die englische Sprache diskutiert.
N2  - The present studies investigate the development of the ability to spelt final consonant clusters in German and its underlying strategies in first- to third-graders (N = 209). In these studies, the influence of morphological complexity (poly- vs. monomorphemic clusters) was analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively, and correlated with a measure of morphological awareness. From the first grade onwards, we found a high spelling accuracy and therefore a language-specific early development of the alphabetic spelling strategy for final consonant clusters. However, the influence of morphological processing mechanisms was only found for third graders. Although even first graders showed a well-developed morphological awareness, they did not seem to be able to use it during spelling. The results are discussed in contrast to extensive previous research in English.
KW  - spelling
KW  - final consonant clusters
KW  - morphological awareness
KW  - German
KW  - Rechtsschreibung
KW  - finale Konsonantencluster
KW  - morphologische Bewusstheit
KW  - Deutsch
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1026/0049-8637/a000193
SN  - 0049-8637
SN  - 2190-6262
VL  - 50
IS  - 3
SP  - 115
EP  - 125
PB  - Hogrefe
CY  - Göttingen
ER  -