TY  - JOUR
A1  - Clahsen, Harald
A1  - Jessen, Anna
T1  - Do bilingual children lag behind? A study of morphological encoding using ERPs
JF  - Journal of child language
N2  - The current study investigates how bilingual children encode and produce morphologically complex words. We employed a silent-production-plus-delayed-vocalization paradigm in which event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded during silent encoding of inflected words which were subsequently cued to be overtly produced. The bilingual children's spoken responses and their ERPs were compared to previous datasets from monolingual children on the same task. We found an enhanced negativity for regular relative to irregular forms during silent production in both bilingual children's languages, replicating the ERP effect previously obtained from monolingual children. Nevertheless, the bilingual children produced more morphological errors (viz. over-regularizations) than monolingual children. We conclude that mechanisms of morphological encoding (as measured by ERPs) are parallel for bilingual and monolingual children, and that the increased over-regularization rates are due to their reduced exposure to each of the two languages (relative to monolingual children).
KW  - morphology
KW  - event-related brain potentials
KW  - bilingualism
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000919000321
SN  - 0305-0009
SN  - 1469-7602
VL  - 46
IS  - 5
SP  - 955
EP  - 979
PB  - Cambridge Univ. Press
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Clahsen, Harald
A1  - Jessen, Anna
T1  - Do bilingual children lag behind?
BT  - A study of morphological encoding using ERPs
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - The current study investigates how bilingual children encode and produce morphologically complex words. We employed a silent-production-plus-delayed-vocalization paradigm in which event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded during silent encoding of inflected words which were subsequently cued to be overtly produced. The bilingual children's spoken responses and their ERPs were compared to previous datasets from monolingual children on the same task. We found an enhanced negativity for regular relative to irregular forms during silent production in both bilingual children's languages, replicating the ERP effect previously obtained from monolingual children. Nevertheless, the bilingual children produced more morphological errors (viz. over-regularizations) than monolingual children. We conclude that mechanisms of morphological encoding (as measured by ERPs) are parallel for bilingual and monolingual children, and that the increased over-regularization rates are due to their reduced exposure to each of the two languages (relative to monolingual children).
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 682 
KW  - morphology
KW  - event-related brain potentials
KW  - bilingualism
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-469727
SN  - 1866-8364
IS  - 682
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Clahsen, Harald
A1  - Gerth, Sabrina
A1  - Heyer, Vera
A1  - Schott, Esther
T1  - Morphology constrains native and non-native word formation in different ways Evidence from plurals inside compounds
JF  - The mental lexicon
N2  - The role of morphological and syntactic information in non-native second language (L2) comprehension is controversial. Some have argued that late bilinguals rapidly integrate grammatical cues with other information sources during reading or listening in the same way as native speakers. Others claim that structural cues are underused in L2 processing. We examined different kinds of modifiers inside compounds (e.g. singulars vs. plurals, *rat eater vs. rats eater) with respect to this controversy which are subject to both structural and nonstructural constraints. Two offline and two online (eye-movement) experiments were performed examining the role of these constraints in spoken language comprehension of English and German, testing 77 advanced L2 learners. We also compared the L2 groups to corresponding groups of native speakers. Our results suggest that despite native-like sensitivity to the compounding constraints, late bilinguals rely more on non-structural constraints and are less able to revise their initial interpretations than L1 comprehenders.
KW  - morphological processing
KW  - compounding
KW  - visual world paradigm
KW  - eye movement
KW  - bilingualism
KW  - second language
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1075/ml.10.1.03cla
SN  - 1871-1340
SN  - 1871-1375
VL  - 10
IS  - 1
SP  - 53
EP  - 87
PB  - Benjamins
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -