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Area of Science:

Psycholinguistics
Developmental Neuroscience
Computational Linguistics

Background:

Understanding how children acquire and process language is crucial for developmental psychology.
Event-related potentials (ERPs) offer insights into the timing and neural basis of cognitive processes.
Morphological computation plays a key role in adult language processing, but its development in children is less understood.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the neural mechanisms of on-line inflectional word form recognition in children.
To compare language processing in children of different age groups and adults using ERPs.
To examine developmental changes in the brain's response to grammatical violations in German noun plurals.

Main Methods:

Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded from 60 children (aged 6-12) and 23 adults.
Participants listened to German sentences with correct or incorrect noun plural forms.
Brain responses to over-regularized plural forms were analyzed for violation effects.

Main Results:

Older children (8+) and adults showed ERPs indicative of grammatical violations for over-regularized plurals.
Language processing ERP components exhibited developmental changes in onset and topography from childhood to adulthood.
ERP violation effects suggest morphological computation is used by children (8+) and adults.

Conclusions:

Children aged eight and above, like adults, utilize morphological computation for processing inflected word forms.
Developmental differences in ERPs reflect children's smaller lexicons and less efficient processing.
Findings support dual-mechanism models of inflectional processing in language acquisition.