Anna Chrabaszcz | University of Pittsburgh | National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russian Federation
Svetlana Cook | University of Maryland, College Park
An auditory lexical decision task tests morphological decomposition and sensitivity to violations in inflection in late second language
learners, early learners (heritage speakers), and native speakers of Russian. Two datasets compared reaction times and error rates to real
Russian inflected nouns and nonce nouns. Two parameters of real nouns were manipulated: case (the nominative, or the oblique case), and
inflection (overt or zero). Nonce nouns had (a) real stems and inflections combined in an illegal way (lemoning), and (b)
inflected nonce stems (lemosing). Results suggest that heritage and late learners process inflectional morphology; however,
their processing of inflected words is unreliable: they are willing to accept words with incongruent inflections. While no major differences
were found in the processing patterns of early and late learners, a developmental trajectory was observed in both groups of learners: their
sensitivity to violations in inflection improved with proficiency.
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