TY  - GEN
A1  - Clahsen, Harald
A1  - Fleischhauer, Elisabeth
T1  - Morphological priming in child German
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - 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.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 529 
KW  - inflected words
KW  - mental lexicon
KW  - acquisition norms
KW  - complex words
KW  - age
KW  - representation
KW  - english
KW  - participles
KW  - regularity
KW  - readers
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-415491
SN  - 1866-8364
IS  - 529
SP  - 1305
EP  - 1333
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Frömer, Romy
A1  - Dimigen, Olaf
A1  - Niefind, Florian
A1  - Kliegl, Reinhold
A1  - Sommer, Werner
T1  - Are individual differences in reading speed related to extrafoveal visual acuity and crowding?
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - Readers differ considerably in their speed of self-paced reading. One factor known to influence fixation durations in reading is the preprocessing of words in parafoveal vision. Here we investigated whether individual differences in reading speed or the amount of information extracted from upcoming words (the preview benefit) can be explained by basic differences in extrafoveal vision-i.e., the ability to recognize peripheral letters with or without the presence of flanking letters. Forty participants were given an adaptive test to determine their eccentricity thresholds for the identification of letters presented either in isolation (extrafoveal acuity) or flanked by other letters (crowded letter recognition). In a separate eye-tracking experiment, the same participants read lists of words from left to right, while the preview of the upcoming words was manipulated with the gaze-contingent moving window technique. Relationships between dependent measures were analyzed on the observational level and with linear mixed models. We obtained highly reliable estimates both for extrafoveal letter identification (acuity and crowding) and measures of reading speed (overall reading speed, size of preview benefit). Reading speed was higher in participants with larger uncrowded windows. However, the strength of this relationship was moderate and it was only observed if other sources of variance in reading speed (e.g., the occurrence of regressive saccades) were eliminated. Moreover, the size of the preview benefit-an important factor in normal reading-was larger in participants with better extrafoveal acuity. Together, these results indicate a significant albeit moderate contribution of extrafoveal vision to individual differences in reading speed.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 494 
KW  - eye-movement control
KW  - object recognition
KW  - perceptual span
KW  - preview benefit
KW  - syntactic ambiguity
KW  - attention
KW  - fixation
KW  - readers
KW  - repetition
KW  - resolution
Y1  - 2018
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-408003
SN  - 1866-8364
IS  - 494
ER  -