TY  - GEN
A1  - Veríssimo, Joao Marques
A1  - Heyer, Vera
A1  - Jacob, Gunnar
A1  - Clahsen, Harald
T1  - Selective effects of age of acquisition on morphological priming
BT  - evidence for a sensitive period
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - Is there an ideal time window for language acquisition after which nativelike
representation and processing are unattainable? Although this question has
been heavily debated, no consensus has been reached. Here, we present
evidence for a sensitive period in language development and show that it is
specific to grammar. We conducted a masked priming task with a group of
Turkish-German bilinguals and examined age of acquisition (AoA) effects on
the processing of complex words. We compared a subtle but meaningful
linguistic contrast, that between grammatical inflection and lexical-based
derivation. The results showed a highly selective AoA effect on inflectional
(but not derivational) priming. In addition, the effect displayed a discontinuity
indicative of a sensitive period: Priming from inflected forms was nativelike
when acquisition started before the age of 5 but declined with increasing
AoA. We conclude that the acquisition of morphological rules expressing
morphosyntactic properties is constrained by maturational factors.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 486 
KW  - visual word recognition
KW  - 2nd-language acquisition
KW  - maturational constraints
KW  - language-acquisition
KW  - 2nd langauge
KW  - speech
KW  - experience
KW  - perception
KW  - english
Y1  - 2018
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-412611
SN  - 1866-8364
IS  - 486
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Heyer, Vera
A1  - Clahsen, Harald
T1  - Late bilinguals see a scan in scanner AND in scandal
BT  - dissecting formal overlap from morphological priming in the processing of derived words
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - Masked priming research with late (non-native) bilinguals has reported facilitation effects following morphologically derived prime words (scanner - scan). However, unlike for native speakers, there are suggestions that purely orthographic prime-target overlap (scandal - scan) also produces priming in non-native visual word recognition. Our study directly compares orthographically related and derived prime-target pairs. While native readers showed morphological but not formal overlap priming, the two prime types yielded the same magnitudes of facilitation for non-natives. We argue that early word recognition processes in a non-native language are more influenced by surface-form properties than in one's native language.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 507 
KW  - masked priming
KW  - late bilinguals
KW  - derivation
KW  - orthographic overlap
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-414441
SN  - 1866-8364
IS  - 507
ER  -