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  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Clahsen, Harald
A1  - Paulmann, Silke
A1  - Budd, Mary-Jane
A1  - Barry, Christopher
T1  - Morphological encoding beyond slots and fillers
BT  - an ERP study of comparative formation in English
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - One important organizational property of morphology is competition. Different means of expression are in conflict with each other for encoding the same grammatical function. In the current study, we examined the nature of this control mechanism by testing the formation of comparative adjectives in English during language production. Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded during cued silent production, the first study of this kind for comparative adjective formation. We specifically examined the ERP correlates of producing synthetic relative to analytic comparatives, e.g. angriervs. more angry. A frontal, bilaterally distributed, enhanced negative-going waveform for analytic comparatives (vis-a-vis synthetic ones) emerged approximately 300ms after the (silent) production cue. We argue that this ERP effect reflects a control mechanism that constrains grammatically-based computational processes (viz. more comparative formation). We also address the possibility that this particular ERP effect may belong to a family of previously observed negativities reflecting cognitive control monitoring, rather than morphological encoding processes per se.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 550 
KW  - event-related potentials
KW  - brain potentials
KW  - language production
KW  - word production
KW  - past-tense
KW  - electrophysiological evidence
KW  - cognitive control
KW  - single word
KW  - time-course
KW  - adjectives
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-426481
SN  - 1866-8364
IS  - 550
ER  -