TY - JOUR A1 - Marusch, Tina A1 - Jäger, Lena Ann A1 - Neiss, Leander A1 - Burchert, Frank A1 - Nickels, Lyndsey T1 - Overt language production of German past participles BT - investigating (ir-)regularity JF - Language, cognition and neuroscience N2 - We report two experiments and Bayesian modelling of the data collected. In both experiments, participants performed a long-lag primed picture naming task. Black-and-white line drawings were used as targets, which were overtly named by the participants. Their naming latencies were measured. In both experiments, primes consisted of past participle verbs (er tanzt/er hat getanzt "he dances/he has danced") and the relationship between primes and targets was either morphological or unrelated. Experiment 1 additionally had phonologically and semantically related prime-target pairs as well as present tense primes. Both in Experiment 1 and 2, participants showed significantly faster naming latencies for morphologically related targets relative to the unrelated verb primes. In Experiment 1, no priming effects were observed in phonologically and semantically related control conditions. In addition, the production latencies were not influenced by verb type. KW - Overt language production KW - long-lag priming KW - regularity KW - Bayesian analysis KW - German past participles Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2018.1527936 SN - 2327-3798 SN - 2327-3801 VL - 34 IS - 3 SP - 289 EP - 308 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - GEN A1 - Clahsen, Harald A1 - Fleischhauer, Elisabeth T1 - Morphological priming in child German T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe N2 - Regular and irregular inflection in children's production has been examined in many previous studies. Yet, little is known about the processes involved in children's recognition of inflected words. To gain insight into how children process inflected words, the current study examines regular -t and irregular -n participles of German using the cross-modal priming technique testing 108 monolingual German-speaking children in two age groups (group I, mean age: 8;4, group II, mean age: 9;9) and a control group of.. adults. Although both age groups of children had the same full priming effect as adults for -t forms, only children of age group II showed an adult-like (partial) priming effect for -n participles. We argue that children (within the age range tested) employ the same mechanisms for regular inflection as adults but that the lexical retrieval processes required for irregular forms become more efficient when children get older. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 529 KW - inflected words KW - mental lexicon KW - acquisition norms KW - complex words KW - age KW - representation KW - english KW - participles KW - regularity KW - readers Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-415491 SN - 1866-8364 IS - 529 SP - 1305 EP - 1333 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Marusch, Tina A1 - Jäger, Lena Ann A1 - Neiß, Leander A1 - Burchert, Frank A1 - Nickels, Lyndsey T1 - Overt language production of German past participles BT - investigating (ir-)regularity T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe N2 - We report two experiments and Bayesian modelling of the data collected. In both experiments, participants performed a long-lag primed picture naming task. Black-and-white line drawings were used as targets, which were overtly named by the participants. Their naming latencies were measured. In both experiments, primes consisted of past participle verbs (er tanzt/er hat getanzt “he dances/he has danced”) and the relationship between primes and targets was either morphological or unrelated. Experiment 1 additionally had phonologically and semantically related prime-target pairs as well as present tense primes. Both in Experiment 1 and 2, participants showed significantly faster naming latencies for morphologically related targets relative to the unrelated verb primes. In Experiment 1, no priming effects were observed in phonologically and semantically related control conditions. In addition, the production latencies were not influenced by verb type. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 492 KW - overt language production KW - long-lag priming KW - regularity KW - Bayesian analysis KW - German past participles Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-420621 SN - 1866-8364 IS - 492 ER - TY - THES A1 - Marusch, Tina T1 - Language production of inflectional verb morphology in healthy and impaired adult speakers of German and English. N2 - This thesis investigates the processing and representation of (ir-)regularity in inflectional verb morphology in German and English. The focus lies on the predictions from models of morphological processing about the production of subtypes of irregular verbs which are usually subsumed under the category `irregular verbs'. Thus, this dissertation presents three journal articles investigating the language production of healthy speakers and speakers with agrammatic aphasia in order to fill a gap both for the availability of language production data and systematically tested patterns of irregularity. The second Chapter set out to investigate whether regularity of a verb or its phonological complexity (measured in number of phonemes) better predict the production accuracies of German speakers with agrammatic aphasia. While regular verbs were significantly more often correct than mixed and irregular verbs, production accuracies of irregular and mixed verbs for impaired participants did not differ. Thus, no influence of phonological complexity was observed. Chapter 3 aimed at teasing apart the influence of stem changes and affix type on the production accuracies of English speaking individuals with agrammatic aphasia. The analyses revealed that the presence of stem changes but not the type of affix had a significant effect on the production accuracies. Moreover, as four different verb types were tested, results showed that production accuracies did not conform to a regular-irregular distinction but that accuracies differed by the degree of regularity. In Chapter 4, long-lag primed picture naming design was used to study if the differences found in the production accuracies of Chapter 3 were also associated with differences in production latencies of non-brain damaged speakers. A morphological priming effect was found, however, in neither experiment the effect differed of the three verb types tested. In addition to standard frequentist analysis, Bayesian analysis were performed. In this way the absence of a difference of the morphological priming effect between verb types was interpreted as actual evidence for the lack of such a difference. Hence, this thesis presents diverging results on the production of subtypes of irregular verbs in healthy and impaired adult speakers. However, at the same time these results provided evidence that the conventional regular-irregular distinction is not adequate for testing models of morphological processing. KW - inflectional morphology KW - regularity KW - primed picture naming KW - agrammatic aphasia KW - language production Y1 - 2017 ER -