Inflectional morphology in bilingual language processing
- This study addresses the question of how age of acquisition (AoA) affects grammatical processing, specifically with respect to inflectional morphology, in bilinguals. We examined experimental data of more than 100 participants from the Russian/German community in Berlin, all of whom acquired Russian from birth and German at different ages. Using the cross-modal lexical priming technique, we investigated stem allomorphs of German verbs that encode multiple morphosyntactic features. The results revealed a striking AoA modulation of observed priming patterns, indicating efficient access to morphosyntactic features for early AoAs and a gradual decline with increasing AoAs. In addition, we found a discontinuity in the function relating AoA to morphosyntactic feature access, suggesting a sensitive period for the development of morphosyntax.
Author details: | Sina BoschORCiDGND, Joao Marques VeríssimoORCiDGND, Harald ClahsenORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-433371 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-43337 |
ISSN: | 1866-8364 |
Title of parent work (English): | Postprints der Universität Potsdam Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe |
Subtitle (English): | an age-of-acquisition study |
Publication series (Volume number): | Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe (569) |
Publication type: | Postprint |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2019/10/23 |
Publication year: | 2019 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Release date: | 2019/10/23 |
Tag: | 2nd-language grammar; L1; L2; adjectives; critical-period; lexicon |
Issue: | 569 |
Number of pages: | 23 |
First page: | 339 |
Last Page: | 360 |
Source: | Language Acquisition 26 (2019) 3, S. 339–360 DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2019.1570204 |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät |
DDC classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
3 Sozialwissenschaften / 37 Bildung und Erziehung / 370 Bildung und Erziehung | |
4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache | |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Open Access |
Grantor: | Taylor & Francis Open Access Agreement |
License (German): | CC-BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell, keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |
External remark: | Bibliographieeintrag der Originalveröffentlichung/Quelle |