TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bosch, Sina
A1  - Krause, Helena
A1  - Leminen, Alina
T1  - The time-course of morphosyntactic and semantic priming in late bilinguals: A study of German adjectives
JF  - Bilingualism : language and cognition.
N2  - How do late proficient bilinguals process morphosyntactic and lexical-semantic information in their non-native language (L2)? How is this information represented in the L2 mental lexicon? And what are the neural signatures of L2 morphosyntactic and lexical-semantic processing? We addressed these questions in one behavioral and two ERP priming experiments on inflected German adjectives testing a group of advanced late Russian learners of German in comparison to native speaker (L1) controls. While in the behavioral experiment, the L2 learners performed native-like, the ERP data revealed clear L1/L2 differences with respect to the temporal dynamics of grammatical processing. Specifically, our results show that L2 morphosyntactic processing yielded temporally and spatially extended brain responses relative to L1 processing, indicating that grammatical processing of inflected words in an L2 is more demanding and less automatic than in the L1. However, this group of advanced L2 learners showed native-like lexical-semantic processing.
KW  - Inflection
KW  - EEG
KW  - Grammatical Processing
KW  - Mental Lexicon
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728916000055
SN  - 1366-7289
SN  - 1469-1841
VL  - 20
SP  - 435
EP  - 456
PB  - Cambridge Univ. Press
CY  - New York
ER  -