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  -