TY  - JOUR
A1  - Budd, Mary-Jane
A1  - Paulmann, Silke
A1  - Barry, Christopher
A1  - Clahsen, Harald
T1  - Brain potentials during language production in children and adults - an ERP study of the English past tense
JF  - Brain & language : a journal of the neurobiology of language
N2  - The current study examines the neural correlates of 8-to-12-year-old children and adults producing inflected word forms, specifically regular vs. irregular past-tense forms in English, using a silent production paradigm. ERPs were time-locked to a visual cue for silent production of either a regular or irregular past-tense form or a 3rd person singular present tense form of a given verb (e.g., walked/sang vs. walks/sings). Subsequently, another visual stimulus cued participants for an overt vocalization of their response. ERP results for the adult group revealed a negativity 300-450 ms after the silent-production cue for regular compared to irregular past-tense forms. There was no difference in the present form condition. Children's brain potentials revealed developmental changes, with the older children demonstrating more adult-like ERP responses than the younger ones. We interpret the observed ERP responses as reflecting combinatorial processing involved in regular (but not irregular) past-tense formation.
KW  - ERP
KW  - Morphology
KW  - Production
KW  - Children
KW  - Past tense
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2012.12.010
SN  - 0093-934X
SN  - 1090-2155
VL  - 127
IS  - 3
SP  - 345
EP  - 355
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - San Diego
ER  -