Testing potential transfer effects in heritage and adult L2 bilinguals acquiring a mini grammar as an additional language: An ERP approach

SM Pereira Soares, T Kupisch, J Rothman - Brain Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Models on L3/L n acquisition differ with respect to how they envisage degree (holistic vs.
selective transfer of the L1, L2 or both) and/or timing (initial stages vs. development) of how …

Morphological awareness in developmental dyslexia: Playing with nonwords in a morphologically rich language

C Melloni, M Vender - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Although phonological deficits are unanimously recognized as one of the key manifestations
of developmental dyslexia, a growing body of research has reported impairments in …

German nominal number interpretation in an impaired mental lexicon: A naive discriminative learning perspective

I Plag, M Heitmeier, F Domahs - The Mental Lexicon, 2023 - jbe-platform.com
There is an ongoing debate on how speakers and listeners process and interpret
information in a morphological system that is very complex and not very transparent. A well …

Selective Neural Entrainment Reveals Hierarchical Tuning to Linguistic Regularities in Reading

M De Rosa, L Vignali, A D'Urso, M Ktori… - Neurobiology of …, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
Reading is both a visual and a linguistic task, and as such it relies on both general-purpose,
visual mechanisms and more abstract, meaning-oriented processes. Disentangling the roles …

The entropy of morphological systems in natural languages is modulated by functional and semantic properties

F Franzon, C Zanini - Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In most natural languages, grammatical gender and number features encode semantic
attributes concerning animacy, sex, and numerosity. Despite the likely advantage of …

Examining effects of early (heritage) bilingualism for later multilingual acquisition and neurocognition

SM Pereira Soares - 2022 - kops.uni-konstanz.de
This PhD thesis sits at the crossroads of two subfields of bilingualism/multilingualism
studies: multilingual language acquisition/processing and neurocognition of bi …

Principles of semantic and functional efficiency in grammatical patterning

E Cheng, F Franzon - arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.15865, 2024 - arxiv.org
Grammatical features such as number and gender serve two central functions in human
languages. While they encode salient semantic attributes like numerosity and animacy, they …

The cognitive reality of morphomes. Evidence from Italian

C Cappellaro, N Dumrukcic, I Fritz, F Franzon… - Morphology, 2024 - Springer
This study reports and discusses the results of a pilot psycholinguistic investigation into the
morphome–a term created (Aronoff) to indicate systematic relations between form and …

[PDF][PDF] Morpho-phonology is not independent of semantics: The case of German nominal number marking

I Plag, F Domahs, M Heitmeier - 2024 - anglistik3.hhu.de
Morpho-phonological alternations in inflectional paradigms are commonly analyzed as
purely formal phenomena, in which the mapping of phonological structure and morpho …

[PDF][PDF] Selective Neural Entrainment Reveals Hierarchical Tuning to Linguistic Regularities

M De Rosa, L Vignali, A D'Urso, M Ktori, R Bottini… - 2023 - files.de-1.osf.io
Reading is both a visual and a linguistic task, and as such it relies on both general-purpose,
visual mechanisms and more abstract, meaning-oriented processes. Disentangling the roles …