TY  - JOUR
A1  - Clahsen, Harald
A1  - Jessen, Anna
T1  - Morphological generalization in bilingual language production
BT  - age of acquisition determines variability
JF  - Language acquisition : a journal of developmental linguistics
N2  - Morphological variability in bilingual language production is widely attested. Producing inflected words has been found to be less reliable and consistent in bilinguals than in first-language (functionally monolingual) L1 speakers, even for bilingual speakers at advanced proficiency levels. The sources for these differences are not well understood. The current study presents a detailed investigation of morphological generalization processes in bilingual speakers' language production. We examined past participle formation of German using an elicited-production experiment containing nonce verbs with varying degrees of similarity to existing verbs testing a large group of bilingual Turkish/German speakers relative to L1 German speakers. We compared similarity-based lexical extensions with generalizations of morphological rules. The results show that rule-based generalizations are used less often and more variably within the bilingual group than within the L1 group. Our results also show a selective effect of age of acquisition on the bilingual speakers' morphological generalizations.
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2021.1910267
SN  - 1048-9223
SN  - 1532-7817
VL  - 28
IS  - 4
SP  - 370
EP  - 386
PB  - Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - London
ER  - 
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
T1  - Obituary: Pieter Muysken
JF  - Bilingualism : language and cognition
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728921000249
SN  - 1366-7289
SN  - 1469-1841
VL  - 24
IS  - 4
SP  - 597
EP  - 598
PB  - Cambridge Univ. Press
CY  - Cambridge
ER  -