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Accessing morphosyntax in L1 and L2 word recognition A priming study of inflected German adjectives

  • In fusional languages, inflectional affixes may encode multiple morphosyntactic features such as case, number, and gender. To determine how these features are accessed during both native (L1) and non-native (L2) word recognition, the present study compares the results from a masked visual priming experiment testing inflected adjectives of German to those of a previous overt (cross-modal) priming experiment on the same phenomenon. While for the L1 group both experiments produced converging results, a group of highly-proficient Russian L2 learners of German showed native-like modulations of repetition priming effects under overt, but not under masked priming conditions. These results indicate that not only affixes but also their morphosyntactic features are accessible during initial form-based lexical access, albeit only for L1 and not for L2 processing. We argue that this contrast is in line with other findings suggesting that non-native language processing is less influenced by structural information than the L1.

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Author details:Sina BoschGND, Harald ClahsenORCiDGND
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1075/ml.11.1.02bos
ISSN:1871-1340
ISSN:1871-1375
Title of parent work (English):The mental lexicon
Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co.
Place of publishing:Amsterdam
Publication type:Article
Language:English
Year of first publication:2016
Publication year:2016
Release date:2020/03/22
Tag:inflection; late bilinguals; masked priming; morphosyntax
Volume:11
Number of pages:29
First page:26
Last Page:54
Organizational units:Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik
Peer review:Referiert
Institution name at the time of the publication:Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
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