TY  - GEN
A1  - Bosch, Sina
A1  - Veríssimo, Joao Marques
A1  - Clahsen, Harald
T1  - Inflectional morphology in bilingual language processing
BT  - an age-of-acquisition study
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - This study addresses the question of how age of acquisition (AoA) affects grammatical processing, specifically with respect to inflectional morphology, in bilinguals. We examined experimental data of more than 100 participants from the Russian/German community in Berlin, all of whom acquired Russian from birth and German at different ages. Using the cross-modal lexical priming technique, we investigated stem allomorphs of German verbs that encode multiple morphosyntactic features. The results revealed a striking AoA modulation of observed priming patterns, indicating efficient access to morphosyntactic features for early AoAs and a gradual decline with increasing AoAs. In addition, we found a discontinuity in the function relating AoA to morphosyntactic feature access, suggesting a sensitive period for the development of morphosyntax.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 569 
KW  - critical-period
KW  - 2nd-language grammar
KW  - adjectives
KW  - lexicon
KW  - L1
KW  - L2
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-433371
SN  - 1866-8364
IS  - 569
SP  - 339
EP  - 360
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Krause, Helena
A1  - Bosch, Sina
A1  - Clahsen, Harald
T1  - Morphosyntax in the bilingual mental lexicon
BT  - an experimental study of strong stems in German
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - 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.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 528 
KW  - morphological structure
KW  - 2nd-language grammar
KW  - inflected nouns
KW  - ER-FMRI
KW  - representation
KW  - sensitivity
KW  - violations
KW  - acquisition
KW  - agreement
KW  - learners
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-415478
SN  - 1866-8364
IS  - 528
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Krause, Helena
A1  - Bosch, Sina
A1  - Clahsen, Harald
T1  - Morphosyntax in the bilingual mental lexicon
BT  - an experimental study of strong stems in German
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - 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.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 520 
KW  - morphological structure
KW  - 2nd-language grammar
KW  - inflected nouns
KW  - ER-FMRI
KW  - representation
KW  - sensitivity
KW  - violations
KW  - acquisition
KW  - agreement
KW  - learners
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-414431
IS  - 520
ER  -