@misc{AdaniForgiariniGuastietal.2014,
  author    = {Adani, Flavia and Forgiarini, Matteo and Guasti, Maria Teresa and Van der Lely, Heather K. J.},
  title     = {Number dissimilarities facilitate the comprehension of relative clauses in children with (Grammatical) Specific Language Impairment},
  series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  journal   = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  number    = {525},
  issn      = {1866-8364},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-41545},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-415453},
  pages     = {811 -- 841},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {This study investigates whether number dissimilarities on subject and object DPs facilitate the comprehension of subject-and object-extracted centre-embedded relative clauses in children with Grammatical Specific Language Impairment (G-SLI). We compared the performance of a group of English-speaking children with G-SLI (mean age: 12; 11) with that of two groups of younger typically developing (TD) children, matched on grammar and receptive vocabulary, respectively. All groups were more accurate on subject-extracted relative clauses than object-extracted ones and, crucially, they all showed greater accuracy for sentences with dissimilar number features (i.e., one singular, one plural) on the head noun and the embedded DP. These findings are interpreted in the light of current psycholinguistic models of sentence comprehension in TD children and provide further insight into the linguistic nature of G-SLI.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{BergerHoehle2012,
  author    = {Berger, Frauke and H{\"o}hle, Barbara},
  title     = {Restrictions on addition},
  series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  journal   = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  number    = {509},
  issn      = {1866-8364},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-41491},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-414911},
  pages     = {28},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {Children up to school age have been reported to perform poorly when interpreting sentences containing restrictive and additive focus particles by treating sentences with a focus particle in the same way as sentences without it. Careful comparisons between results of previous studies indicate that this phenomenon is less pronounced for restrictive than for additive particles. We argue that this asymmetry is an effect of the presuppositional status of the proposition triggered by the additive particle. We tested this in two experiments with German-learning three-and four-year-olds using a method that made the exploitation of the information provided by the particles highly relevant for completing the task. Three-year-olds already performed remarkably well with sentences both with auch 'also' and with nur 'only'. Thus, children can consider the presuppositional contribution of the additive particle in their sentence interpretation and can exploit the restrictive particle as a marker of exhaustivity.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{HoehleHoernigWeskottetal.2014,
  author    = {H{\"o}hle, Barbara and H{\"o}rnig, Robin and Weskott, Thomas and Knauf, Selene and Kr{\"u}ger, Agnes},
  title     = {Effects of focus and definiteness on children's word order},
  series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  journal   = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  number    = {511},
  issn      = {1866-8364},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-41569},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-415695},
  pages     = {31},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {Two experiments tested how faithfully German children aged 4; 5 to 5; 6 reproduce ditransitive sentences that are unmarked or marked with respect to word order and focus (Exp1) or definiteness (Exp2). Adopting an optimality theory (OT) approach, it is assumed that in the German adult grammar word order is ranked lower than focus and definiteness. Faithfulness of children's reproductions decreased as markedness of inputs increased; unmarked structures were reproduced most faithfully and unfaithful outputs had most often an unmarked form. Consistent with the OT proposal, children were more tolerant against inputs marked for word order than for focus; in conflict with the proposal, children were less tolerant against inputs marked for word order than for definiteness. Our results suggest that the linearization of objects in German double object constructions is affected by focus and definiteness, but that prosodic principles may have an impact on the position of a focused constituent.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{KrauseBoschClahsen2015,
  author    = {Krause, Helena and Bosch, Sina and Clahsen, Harald},
  title     = {Morphosyntax in the bilingual mental lexicon},
  series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  journal   = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  number    = {520},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-41443},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-414431},
  pages     = {25},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {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.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{KrauseBoschClahsen2015,
  author    = {Krause, Helena and Bosch, Sina and Clahsen, Harald},
  title     = {Morphosyntax in the bilingual mental lexicon},
  series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  journal   = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  number    = {528},
  issn      = {1866-8364},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-41547},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-415478},
  pages     = {25},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {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.},
  language  = {en}
}