Research Interests:

In addition to acquisition, disorders and processing of language, his research interests include theories of morphology and syntax.

Recent Publications:

2007: Antecedent priming at trace positions in children’s sentence processing. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 36: 175-188; with L. Roberts, T. Marinis, and C. Felser.

2006: How native-like is non-native language processing? Trends in Cognitive Sciences 10: 564-570; with C. Felser.

2006: Linguistic perspectives on morphological processing. In: D. Wunderlich (ed.), Advances in the theory of the lexicon. Mouton de Gruyter: Berlin, pp. 355-388.

2006: Ambiguity resolution in sentence processing: The role of lexical and contextual information. Journal of Linguistics 42: 109-138; with D. Papadopoulou.

2006: Grammatical processing in language learners. Applied Psycholinguistics 27: 3-42; with C. Felser. [Keynote article]

2006: Continuity and shallow structures in language processing. Applied Psycholinguistics 27: 107-126; with C. Felser. [Authors’ Response]

2006: Brain potentials to morphologically complex words during listening. Brain Research 1077: 144-152; with M. Lueck and A. Hahne.

2006: Stem allomorphy in the Spanish mental lexicon: Evidence from behavioral and ERP experiments. Brain & Language 97: 110-120; with R. E. Linares and A. Rodriguez-Fornells.

2006: Morphological processing in a second language: Behavioral and event-related brain potential evidence for storage and decomposition. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 18: 121-134; with A. Hahne and J. Müller.

2005: Structural and lexical case in child German: Evidence from language-impaired and typically-developing children. Language Acquisition 13: 3-32; with S. Eisenbeiss and S. Bartke.

2005: Distinct patterns of language impairment in Down’s Syndrome and Williams Syndrome: The case of syntactic chains. Journal of Neurolinguistics 18: 479-501; with M. Ring.

2005: Finiteness and verb-second in German agrammatism. Brain & Language 92: 33-44; with M. Wenzlaff.

2005: Gaps in second language sentence processing. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 27: 53-78; with T. Marinis, L. Roberts and C. Felser.

2004: Speeded production of inflected words in children and adults. Journal of Child Language 31: 683-712; with M. Hadler and H. Weyerts.

2004: On the L2 acquisition of the morphosyntax of German nominals. Linguistics 42: 669-705; with T. Parodi and B. Schwartz.

2004: Tense and agreement in German agrammatism. Brain & Language 89: 57-68; with M. Wenzlaff.

2003: Children’s processing of ambiguous sentences: a study of relative clause attachment. Language Acquisition 11: 127-163; with C. Felser and T. Marinis.

2003: Storage and integration in the processing of filler-gap dependencies: an ERP study of topicalisation and wh-movement in German. Brain & Language 87: 345-354; with C. Felser and T. Münte.

2003: Parsing strategies in L1 and L2 sentence processing: a study of relative clause attachment in Greek. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 25: 501-528; with D. Papadopoulou.

2003: Derivational morphology in the German mental lexicon: a dual mechanism account. In: H. Baayen & R. Schreuder (Eds.), Morphological structure in language processing. Mouton de Gruyter: Berlin, pp. 125-155; with I. Sonnenstuhl and J. Blevins.

2003: Words and rules in children with Williams Syndrome. In: Y. Levy & J. Schaeffer (Eds.), Language competence across populations. Erlbaum Press: Hillsdale, NJ, pp. 323-352; with C. Temple.

2002: Antecedent priming at trace positions in Japanese long-distance scrambling. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 31: 531-571; with Y. Nakano and C. Felser.

2002: The development of regular and irregular verb inflection in Spanish child language. Journal of Child Language 29: 591-622; with F. Aveledo and I. Roca.

2002: Morphological priming in Spanish verb forms: an ERP repetition priming study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 14: 443-454; with A. Rodriguez-Fornells and T. Münte.

2002: Word order in sentence processing: An experimental study of verb placement in German. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 31: 211-268; with H. Weyerts, M. Penke, T. Münte and H.-J. Heinze.

2002: Strong stems in the German mental lexicon: evidence from child language acquisition and adult processing. In: I. Kaufmann & B. Stiebels (Eds.), More than words: a festschrift for Dieter Wunderlich. (Studia grammatica 53). Akademie-Verlag: Berlin, pp. 91-112; with P. Prüfert, S. Eisenbeiss and J. Cholin.

2002: Words, rules and stems in the Italian mental lexicon. In: S. Nooteboom, F. Weerman & F. Wijnen (Eds.), Storage and computation in the language faculty. Kluwer: Dordrecht, pp. 93-129; with T. Say.

2001: The mental representation of inflected words: an experimental study of adjectives and verbs in German. Language 77: 510-543; with I. Sonnenstuhl, M. Hadler and S. Eisenbeiss.

2001: Compounding and inflection in language impairment: evidence from Williams Syndrome (and SLI). Lingua 111: 729-757; with M. Almazan.

2001: Morphological paradigms in language processing and language disorders. Transactions of the Philological Society 99: 247-277; with I. Sonnenstuhl, M. Hadler and S. Eisenbeiss.

2001: Event-related brain responses to morphological violations in Catalan. Cognitive Brain Research 11: 47-58; with A. Rodriguez-Fornells, C. Lleó, W. Zaake and T. Münte.