Investigating grammatical processing in bilinguals The case of morphological priming
- In this article we discuss methods for investigating grammatical processing in bilinguals. We will present a methodological approach that relies on: (i) linguistic theory (in our case, morphology) for the construction of experimental materials; (ii) a design that allows for direct (within-experiment, within-participant, and within-item) comparisons of the critical conditions; and (iii) data analysis techniques that make both linear and non-linear gradient effects visible. We review recent studies of masked morphological priming in bilinguals in which the application of these methodological principles revealed highly selective interactions of age of acquisition (and the native/non-native contrast) with the linguistic distinction between inflection and derivation. We believe that such considerations are not only relevant for grammatical processing experiments, but also for studying bilingualism, and its potential cognitive advantages, more generally.
Author details: | Harald ClahsenORCiDGND, Joao Marques VerissimoORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.15039.cla |
ISSN: | 1879-9264 |
ISSN: | 1879-9272 |
Title of parent work (English): | Linguistic approaches to bilingualism |
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: | Morphological priming; age of acquisition; critical period; derivation; inflection |
Volume: | 6 |
Number of pages: | 14 |
First page: | 685 |
Last Page: | 698 |
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 |