Morphosyntax in the bilingual mental lexicon
- Although morphosyntax has been identified as a major source of difficulty for adult (nonnative) language learners, most previous studies have examined a limited set of largely affix-based phenomena. Little is known about word-based morphosyntax in late bilinguals and of how morphosyntax is represented and processed in a nonnative speaker's lexicon. To address these questions, we report results from two behavioral experiments investigating stem variants of strong verbs in German (which encode features such as tense, person, and number) in groups of advanced adult learners as well as native speakers of German. Although the late bilinguals were highly proficient in German, the results of a lexical priming experiment revealed clear native-nonnative differences. We argue that lexical representation and processing relies less on morphosyntactic information in a nonnative than in a native language.
Author details: | Helena Krause, Sina BoschORCiDGND, Harald ClahsenORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-415478 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-41547 |
ISSN: | 1866-8364 |
Title of parent work (English): | Postprints der Universität Potsdam Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe |
Subtitle (English): | an experimental study of strong stems in German |
Publication series (Volume number): | Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe (528) |
Publication type: | Postprint |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2019/02/12 |
Publication year: | 2015 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Release date: | 2019/02/12 |
Tag: | 2nd-language grammar; ER-FMRI; acquisition; agreement; inflected nouns; learners; morphological structure; representation; sensitivity; violations |
Issue: | 528 |
Number of pages: | 25 |
Source: | Studies in Second Language Acquisition 37 (2015) pp. 597-621 |
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 |