This project investigates processes involved in the real-time production of morphologically complex words in English-speaking children and adults by using event-related brain potentials and behavioural tasks. We will specifically employ the technique of delayed vocalizations for studying language production using brain potentials.
Children in three age groups (6-to-7-year olds, 8-to-9-year olds, 11-to-12-year olds) in addition to adult controls will be studied, to determine how mechanisms for morphological processing develop over time. Different morphological phenomena will be covered including inflection, derivation, and compounding.
Harald Clahsen
Chris Barry
Silke Paulmann
Mary-Jane Budd
University of Potsdam
Potsdam Research Institute for Multilingualism
Haus 2
Campus Golm
Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25
14476 Potsdam
Tel.: +49 331 977-2751
Fax: +49 331 977-2687
E-Mail: prim@uni-potsdam.de