Grammatical Processing of Spoken Language in Child and Adult Language Learners |
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Authors: | Claudia Felser Harald Clahsen |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, UK |
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Abstract: | This article presents a selective overview of studies that have investigated auditory language processing in children and
late second-language (L2) learners using online methods such as event-related potentials (ERPs), eye-movement monitoring,
or the cross-modal priming paradigm. Two grammatical phenomena are examined in detail, children’s and adults’ processing of
German plural inflections (Lück et al. Brain Res 1077:144–152, 2006; Hahne et al. J Cognitive Neurosci 18:121–134, 2006; Clahsen
et al. J Child Language 34:601–622, 2007) and language learners’ processing of filler-gap dependencies in English (Felser
C, Roberts L Second Language Res 23:9–36, 2007; Roberts et al. J Psycholinguist Res 36:175–188, 2007). The results from these
studies reveal clear differences between native and nonnative processing in both domains of grammar, suggesting that nonnative
listeners rely less on grammatical parsing routines during processing than either child or adult native listeners. We also
argue that factors such as slower processing speed or cognitive resource limitations only provide a partial account of our
findings. |
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Keywords: | Morphological processing Sentence processing Event-related potentials Cross-modal priming Filler-gap dependencies German English |
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