TY  - GEN
A1  - Veríssimo, Joao Marques
A1  - Heyer, Vera
A1  - Jacob, Gunnar
A1  - Clahsen, Harald
T1  - Selective effects of age of acquisition on morphological priming
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - Is there an ideal time window for language acquisition after which nativelike
representation and processing are unattainable? Although this question has
been heavily debated, no consensus has been reached. Here, we present
evidence for a sensitive period in language development and show that it is
specific to grammar. We conducted a masked priming task with a group of
Turkish-German bilinguals and examined age of acquisition (AoA) effects on
the processing of complex words. We compared a subtle but meaningful
linguistic contrast, that between grammatical inflection and lexical-based
derivation. The results showed a highly selective AoA effect on inflectional
(but not derivational) priming. In addition, the effect displayed a discontinuity
indicative of a sensitive period: Priming from inflected forms was nativelike
when acquisition started before the age of 5 but declined with increasing
AoA. We conclude that the acquisition of morphological rules expressing
morphosyntactic properties is constrained by maturational factors.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 486 
KW  - visual word recognition
KW  - 2nd-language acquisition
KW  - maturational constraints
KW  - language-acquisition
KW  - 2nd langauge
KW  - speech
KW  - experience
KW  - perception
KW  - english
Y1  - 2018
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/41261
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-412611
SN  - 1866-8364
IS  - 486
ER  -