Morphological priming in child German
- Regular and irregular inflection in children's production has been examined in many previous studies. Yet, little is known about the processes involved in children's recognition of inflected words. To gain insight into how children process inflected words, the current study examines regular -t and irregular -n participles of German using the cross-modal priming technique testing 108 monolingual German-speaking children in two age groups (group I, mean age: 8;4, group II, mean age: 9;9) and a control group of.. adults. Although both age groups of children had the same full priming effect as adults for -t forms, only children of age group II showed an adult-like (partial) priming effect for -n participles. We argue that children (within the age range tested) employ the same mechanisms for regular inflection as adults but that the lexical retrieval processes required for irregular forms become more efficient when children get older.
Author details: | Harald ClahsenORCiDGND, Elisabeth FleischhauerORCiD |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-415491 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-41549 |
ISSN: | 1866-8364 |
Title of parent work (English): | Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe |
Publication series (Volume number): | Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe (529) |
Publication type: | Postprint |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2019/02/12 |
Publication year: | 2014 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Release date: | 2019/02/12 |
Tag: | acquisition norms; age; complex words; english; inflected words; mental lexicon; participles; readers; regularity; representation |
Issue: | 529 |
Number of pages: | 29 |
First page: | 1305 |
Last Page: | 1333 |
Source: | Journal of Child Language 41 (2014) 6, pp.1305–1333 DOI 10.1017/S0305000913000494 DDC: 400 Sprache |
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 |
External remark: | Bibliographieeintrag der Originalveröffentlichung/Quelle |