Brain potentials to inflected adjectives: Beyond storage and decomposition

Leminen, Alina; Clahsen, Harald

doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2013.10.038

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“…Following previous studies (Clahsen et al 2001;Leminen & Clahsen 2014;, each of the two test conditions with morphologically related prime-target pairs (e.g., sterben → stirbt and stirbt → sterben) was compared against a corresponding control condition with identical prime-target pairs (e.g., stirbt → stirbt and sterben → sterben). For each target type (i.e., targets with marked and unmarked stems), we compared lexical decision RTs following test primes with those following identity primes; for example, RTs for the target sterben in stirbt → sterben were compared with RTs for the same target in sterben → sterben.…”

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Inflectional morphology in bilingual language processing: An age-of-acquisition study

Bosch

Veríssimo

Clahsen

2019

Language Acquisition

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This study addresses the question of how age of acquisition (AoA) affects grammatical processing, specifically with respect to inflectional morphology, in bilinguals. We examined experimental data of more than 100 participants from the Russian/German community in Berlin, all of whom acquired Russian from birth and German at different ages. Using the crossmodal lexical priming technique, we investigated stem allomorphs of German verbs that encode multiple morphosyntactic features. The results revealed a striking AoA modulation of observed priming patterns, indicating efficient access to morphosyntactic features for early AoAs and a gradual decline with increasing AoAs. In addition, we found a discontinuity in the function relating AoA to morphosyntactic feature access, suggesting a sensitive period for the development of morphosyntax.

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Inflectional morphology in bilingual language processing: An age-of-acquisition study

Bosch

Veríssimo

Clahsen

2019

Language Acquisition

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“…The ERP data revealed that prime-target pairs sharing the same lemmas yielded a reduced N400 in the L2, signalling facilitation in lexical retrieval similarly to the L1 control group (cf. Leminen & Clahsen, 2014). However, morphologically related prime-target pairs yielded a reduced positivity for -s and identity primes relative to primes with -m , reflecting the specificity of the -m affix.…”

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ERP priming studies of bilingual language processing

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Leminen

2018

Bilingualism

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The aim of this review is to provide a selective overview of priming studies which have employed the event-related brain potential (ERP) technique in order to investigate bilingual language processing. The priming technique can reveal an implicit memory effect in which exposure to one stimulus influences the processing of another stimulus. Behavioral approaches, such as measuring reaction times, may not always be enough for providing a full view on the exact mechanisms and the time-course of language comprehension. Instead, ERPs have a time-resolution of a millisecond and hence, they offer a precise temporal overview of the underlying neural processes involved in language processing. In our review, we summarize experimental research which has combined priming with ERP measurements, thus creating a valuable tool for examining the neurophysiological correlates of language processing in the bilingual brain.

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“…Are L2 learners sensitive to subtle morphosyntactic features even at the single word-level? The temporal dynamics of grammatical and lexical properties of morphologically complex words in L1 speakers of German have been examined by Leminen and Clahsen (2014). They investigated inflected adjectives of German in two cross-modal ERP priming experiments, separately studying effects of lexical-semantic relatedness and morphosyntactically related affixes.…”

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“…Secondly, by using ERPs we will investigate the nature of online L2 processing of inflected word forms focusing on the temporal dynamics of morphosyntactic feature access relative to lexical-semantic retrieval in late L2 learners. These data will be directly compared to previously obtained data from native speaker controls as reported in Leminen and Clahsen (2014). ERPs provide a particularly useful method for examining morphosyntactic processing (e.g., Steinhauer, White & Drury, 2009 for review) since they allow tracking linguistic processes with a timescale of milliseconds.…”

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“…An early focused ERP response signaling morphosyntactic processing was reported for L1 speakers (cf. Leminen & Clahsen, 2014). An important question for this study is whether the same temporal priority of morphosyntactic processing relative to lexical-semantic retrieval is also obtained for late L2 learners.…”

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The time-course of morphosyntactic and semantic priming in late bilinguals: A study of German adjectives

2016

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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.

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Brain potentials to inflected adjectives: Beyond storage and decomposition

Cited by 13 publications

References 40 publications

Inflectional morphology in bilingual language processing: An age-of-acquisition study

Inflectional morphology in bilingual language processing: An age-of-acquisition study

ERP priming studies of bilingual language processing

The time-course of morphosyntactic and semantic priming in late bilinguals: A study of German adjectives

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