How Germans prepare for the English past tense
- Processes involved in late bilinguals' production of morphologically complex words were studied using an event-related brain potentials (ERP) paradigm in which EEGs were recorded during participants' silent productions of English past- and present-tense forms. Twenty-three advanced second language speakers of English (first language [L1] German) were compared to a control group of 19 L1 English speakers from an earlier study. We found a frontocentral negativity for regular relative to irregular past-tense forms (e.g., asked vs. held) during (silent) production, and no difference for the present-tense condition (e.g., asks vs. holds), replicating the ERP effect obtained for the L1 group. This ERP effect suggests that combinatorial processing is involved in producing regular past-tense forms, in both late bilinguals and L1 speakers. We also suggest that this paradigm is a useful tool for future studies of online language production.
Author details: | Julia FestmanORCiDGND, Harald ClahsenORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-414455 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-41445 |
Title of parent work (English): | Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe |
Subtitle (English): | silent production of inflected words during EEG |
Publication series (Volume number): | Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe (521) |
Publication type: | Postprint |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2019/02/09 |
Publication year: | 2016 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Release date: | 2019/02/08 |
Tag: | 2nd-language; brain potentials; electrophysiological evidence; language production; late bilinguals; lexical access; masked priming experiments; morphologically complex words; speech production; time-course |
Issue: | 521 |
Number of pages: | 20 |
First page: | 487 |
Last Page: | 506 |
Source: | Applied Psycholinguistics 37 (2016) 2, pp. 487–506 DOI 10.1017/S0142716415000089 |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät |
DDC classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Open Access |
Grantor: | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
License (German): | Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |