Morphological processing in heritage speakers
- 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 forPrevious 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.…
Verfasserangaben: | Serkan UygunORCiD, Harald ClahsenORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728920000577 |
ISSN: | 1366-7289 |
ISSN: | 1469-1841 |
Titel des übergeordneten Werks (Englisch): | Bilingualism : language and cognition |
Untertitel (Englisch): | a masked priming study on the Turkish aorist |
Verlag: | Cambridge Univ. Press |
Verlagsort: | Cambridge |
Publikationstyp: | Wissenschaftlicher Artikel |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Datum der Erstveröffentlichung: | 01.05.2021 |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 28.11.2022 |
Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | Turkish; aorist; morphology; priming; processing; variability |
Band: | 24 |
Ausgabe: | 3 |
Aufsatznummer: | PII S1366728920000577 |
Seitenanzahl: | 12 |
Erste Seite: | 415 |
Letzte Seite: | 426 |
Fördernde Institution: | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)German Research Foundation (DFG) [317633480 - SFB 1287] |
Organisationseinheiten: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
DDC-Klassifikation: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache | |
Peer Review: | Referiert |
Publikationsweg: | Open Access / Hybrid Open-Access |
Lizenz (Deutsch): | CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |