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  - 
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  - 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  -