Do Bilingual Children Lag Behind? A Study of Morphological Encoding Using ERPs

Autor/inn/en	Clahsen, Harald; Jessen, Anna
Titel	Do Bilingual Children Lag Behind? A Study of Morphological Encoding Using ERPs
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 46 (2019) 5, S.955-979 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Clahsen, Harald)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
DOI	10.1017/S0305000919000321
Schlagwörter	Bilingualism; Language Processing; Morphology (Languages); Cognitive Measurement; Children; Monolingualism; Speech; English; German; Foreign Countries; Germany (Berlin) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bilingualismus; Sprachverarbeitung; Morphology; Morphologie; Child; Kind; Kinder; Speaking; Sprechen; English language; Englisch; Deutscher; Ausland
Abstract	The current study investigates how bilingual children encode and produce morphologically complex words. We employed a silent-production-plus-delayed-vocalization paradigm in which event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded during silent encoding of inflected words which were subsequently cued to be overtly produced. The bilingual children's spoken responses and their ERPs were compared to previous datasets from monolingual children on the same task. We found an enhanced negativity for regular relative to irregular forms during silent production in both bilingual children's languages, replicating the ERP effect previously obtained from monolingual children. Nevertheless, the bilingual children produced more morphological errors (viz. over-regularizations) than monolingual children. We conclude that mechanisms of morphological encoding (as measured by ERPs) are parallel for bilingual and monolingual children, and that the increased over-regularization rates are due to their reduced exposure to each of the two languages (relative to monolingual children). (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01