Verarbeitung von deutschen W-Fragen mit starken und schwachen Maskulina durch ein- und mehrsprachige Kinder und Erwachsene – Evidenz für morphosyntaktische Schemata?

What eye and hand movements tell us about expectations towards argument order: An eye- and mouse-tracking study in German

“…To this end, half of our OVS sentences marked ACC on the article only and half on both the article and noun. In both experiments, any differences between the simple and the double marking of ACC only showed up as trends (see also Binanzer et al, 2021). Hence, we have only limited evidence that the double marking of case facilitated comprehension.…”

“…Note that besides being perceptually more dissimilar, the articles der and die are also more frequent in the input than the articles dem and den. While this could be another reason for a better performance for the order DO-IO following die in contrast to den, the slight differences between the simple and double marking of case in the OVS sentences speak in favor of a role of perceptual salience for the predictive use of morphological case marking; see also Binanzer et al (2021). Better performance in a similar picture selection task for experimental conditions in which the salience of the case morpheme was enhanced or in which the case morpheme was two-syllabic has also been shown for heritage speakers of Korean (Kim et al, 2018).…”

“…One may reason that the processing of OVS sentences is easier when the less frequent article den is followed by a second case cue. A recent study investigating the comprehension of subject-and object-initial wh-questions in German showed a trend towards better identification of subject/agent and object/patient for nouns that have the double case marking (Binanzer et al, 2021). Note, however, this additional marking is often dropped in colloquial speech.…”