TY  - GEN
A1  - Festman, Julia
A1  - Clahsen, Harald
T1  - How Germans prepare for the English past tense
BT  - silent production of inflected words during EEG
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - Processes involved in late bilinguals' production of morphologically complex words were studied using an event-related brain potentials (ERP) paradigm in which EEGs were recorded during participants' silent productions of English past- and present-tense forms. Twenty-three advanced second language speakers of English (first language [L1] German) were compared to a control group of 19 L1 English speakers from an earlier study. We found a frontocentral negativity for regular relative to irregular past-tense forms (e.g., asked vs. held) during (silent) production, and no difference for the present-tense condition (e.g., asks vs. holds), replicating the ERP effect obtained for the L1 group. This ERP effect suggests that combinatorial processing is involved in producing regular past-tense forms, in both late bilinguals and L1 speakers. We also suggest that this paradigm is a useful tool for future studies of online language production.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 521 
KW  - morphologically complex words
KW  - masked priming experiments
KW  - brain potentials
KW  - speech production
KW  - time-course
KW  - language production
KW  - electrophysiological evidence
KW  - late bilinguals
KW  - lexical access
KW  - 2nd-language
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-414455
IS  - 521
SP  - 487
EP  - 506
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Festman, Julia
A1  - Clahsen, Harald
T1  - How Germans prepare for the English past tense
BT  - silent production of inflected words during EEG
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - Processes involved in late bilinguals' production of morphologically complex words were studied using an event-related brain potentials (ERP) paradigm in which EEGs were recorded during participants' silent productions of English past- and present-tense forms. Twenty-three advanced second language speakers of English (first language [L1] German) were compared to a control group of 19 L1 English speakers from an earlier study. We found a frontocentral negativity for regular relative to irregular past-tense forms (e.g., asked vs. held) during (silent) production, and no difference for the present-tense condition (e.g., asks vs. holds), replicating the ERP effect obtained for the L1 group. This ERP effect suggests that combinatorial processing is involved in producing regular past-tense forms, in both late bilinguals and L1 speakers. We also suggest that this paradigm is a useful tool for future studies of online language production.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 504 
KW  - morphologically complex words
KW  - masked priming experiments
KW  - brain potentials
KW  - speech production
KW  - time-course
KW  - language production
KW  - electrophysiological evidence
KW  - late bilinguals
KW  - lexical access
KW  - 2nd-language
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-413678
SN  - 1866-8364
IS  - 504
ER  -