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This research aims to explore how bilingual speakers process morphologically complex verbs in their native and second languages.

Limits of variability in bilingual language processing: An event-related potential study of German and English verb morphology

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An ERP study examines verb form processing in bilingual speakers, indicating significant language differences.

This research aims to explore how bilingual speakers process morphologically complex verbs in their native and second languages.
Employed an ERP violation paradigm to assess brain responses.
Tested 108 bilingual speakers responding to verb morphology.
Examined reactions to regular and irregular verb inflections.
Identified distinct L1/L2 brain response patterns for regular and irregular verb forms.
Observed a left-anterior negativity for regularizations in the native language (L1).
Noted a P600 positivity for both violation types in the second language (L2).
Confirmed that individual variability in brain responses was influenced by linguistic factors.

Clahsen et al. (2026) studied this question.

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