TY  - GEN
A1  - Gotzner, Nicole
A1  - Wartenburger, Isabell
A1  - Spalek, Katharina
T1  - The impact of focus particles on the recognition and rejection of contrastive alternatives
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - The semantics of focus particles like only requires a set of alternatives (Rooth, 1992). In two experiments, we investigated the impact of such particles on the retrieval of alternatives that are mentioned in the prior context or unmentioned. The first experiment used a probe recognition task and showed that focus particles interfere with the recognition of mentioned alternatives and the rejection of unmentioned alternatives relative to a condition without a particle. A second lexical decision experiment demonstrated priming effects for mentioned and unmentioned alternatives (compared with an unrelated condition) while focus particles caused additional interference effects. Overall, our results indicate that focus particles trigger an active search for alternatives and lead to a competition between mentioned alternatives, unmentioned alternatives, and the focused element.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 517 
KW  - focus particles
KW  - alternative-set semantics
KW  - probe recognition task
KW  - lexical decision task
KW  - competitive inhibition
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-413420
SN  - 1866-8364
IS  - 517
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  - Shaw, Jason A.
A1  - Gafos, Adamantios I.
A1  - Hoole, Philip
A1  - Zeroual, Chakir
T1  - Dynamic invariance in the phonetic expression of syllable structure
BT  - a case study of Moroccan Arabic consonant clusters
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - We asked whether invariant phonetic indices for syllable structure can be identified in a language where word-initial consonant clusters, regardless of their sonority profile, are claimed to be parsed heterosyllabically. Four speakers of Moroccan Arabic were recorded, using Electromagnetic Articulography. Pursuing previous work, we employed temporal diagnostics for syllable structure, consisting of static correspondences between any given phonological organisation and its presumed phonetic indices. We show that such correspondences offer only a partial understanding of the relation between syllabic organisation and continuous indices of that organisation. We analyse the failure of the diagnostics and put forth a new approach in which different phonological organisations prescribe different ways in which phonetic indices change as phonetic parameters are scaled. The main finding is that invariance is found in these patterns of change, rather than in static correspondences between phonological constructs and fixed values for their phonetic indices.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 516 
KW  - american english
KW  - perception
KW  - speech
KW  - organization
KW  - duration
KW  - patterns
KW  - syllabication
KW  - articulation
KW  - sequences
KW  - knowledge
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-412479
SN  - 1866-8364
IS  - 516
SP  - 455
EP  - 490
ER  -