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Roberts, Leah; Marinis, Theodore; Felser, Claudia; Clahsen, Harald – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2007
The present study examines whether children reactivate a moved constituent at its gap position and how children's more limited working memory span affects the way they process filler-gap dependencies. 46 5-7 year-old children and 54 adult controls participated in a cross-modal picture priming experiment and underwent a standardized working memory…
Descriptors: Sentences, Short Term Memory, Cues, Language Processing
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Wenzlaff, Michaela; Clahsen, Harald – Brain and Language, 2005
This study presents results from sentence-completion and grammaticality-judgement tasks with seven German-speaking agrammatic aphasics and seven age-matched control subjects examining verb finiteness marking and verb-second (V2) placement. The patients were found to be selectively impaired in tense marking in the face of preserved mood and…
Descriptors: Verbs, German, Grammar, Aphasia
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Papadopoulou, Despina; Clahsen, Harald – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2003
To contribute to a better understanding of second language (L2) sentence processing, the present study examines how L2 learners parse temporarily ambiguous sentences containing relative clauses. Results are reported from both off-line and on-line experiments with three groups of advanced learners of Greek whose native languages (L1s) were Spanish,…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Sentences, Cues, Greek
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Marinis, Theodore; Roberts, Leah; Felser, Claudia; Clahsen, Harald – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2005
Four groups of second language (L2) learners of English from different language backgrounds (Chinese, Japanese, German, and Greek) and a group of native speaker controls participated in an online reading time experiment with sentences involving long-distance "wh"-dependencies. Although the native speakers showed evidence of making use of…
Descriptors: Sentences, Second Language Learning, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)