Gunnar Jacob
Biographic Data
| ID | 3844918 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gunnar Jacob |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gunnar |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacob |
| SIGNATURE | JACOB G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Mannheim |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0882-5667 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cross-linguistic structural priming of innovations in Canadian French: Evidence from a language contact situation
Intra-individual language contact in bilinguals is considered a potential source for the emergence of structural innovations in a language, eventually leading to grammatical language change. This study investigates the psycholinguistic mechanisms involved in this process, focusing on cross-linguistic structural innovation priming. In a web-based self-paced reading experiment with production pre- and posttests, we tested Canadian French–English bi…
The role of cross-linguistic structural priming in contact-induced language change: Ungrammatical comparative priming in Turkish–German bilinguals
Research investigating the psycholinguistic foundations of contact-induced grammatical language change suggests that new structures may enter a language through cross-linguistic priming in bilinguals. However, this assumes that priming effects can emerge even for structures which are ungrammatical in the target language. In the present study, we test this assumption by investigating cross-linguistic ungrammatical priming for analytic comparatives…
Priming and the Lexical Boost Effect across Development in a Structurally Biased Language
The present study investigates the developmental trajectory of abstract representations for syntactic structures in children. In a structural priming experiment on the dative alternation in German, we primed children from three different age groups (3-4 years, 5-6 years, 7-8 years) and adults with double object datives (Dora sent Boots the rabbit) or prepositional object datives (Dora sent the rabbit to Boots). Importantly, the prepositional obje…
Preserved morphological processing in heritage speakers: A masked priming study on Turkish
In a masked morphological priming experiment, we compared the processing of derived and inflected morphologically complex Turkish words in heritage speakers of Turkish living in Berlin and in native speakers of Turkish raised and living in Turkey. The results show significant derivational and inflectional priming effects of a similar magnitude in the heritage group and the control group. For both participant groups, semantic and orthographic cont…
Aiming at the same target: A masked priming study directly comparing derivation and inflection in the second language
Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: We compared the processing of morphologically complex derived vs. inflected forms in native speakers of German and highly proficient native Russian second language (L2) learners of German. Design/methodology/approach: We measured morphological priming effects for derived and inflected German words. To ensure that priming effects were genuinely morphological, the design also contained semantic and or…
Priming and the Lexical Boost Effect across Development in a Structurally Biased Language
The present study investigates the developmental trajectory of abstract representations for syntactic structures in children. In a structural priming experiment on the dative alternation in German, we primed children from three different age groups (3-4 years, 5-6 years, 7-8 years) and adults with double object datives (Dora sent Boots the rabbit) or prepositional object datives (Dora sent the rabbit to Boots). Importantly, the prepositional obje…
Aiming at the same target: A masked priming study directly comparing derivation and inflection in the second language
Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: We compared the processing of morphologically complex derived vs. inflected forms in native speakers of German and highly proficient native Russian second language (L2) learners of German. Design/methodology/approach: We measured morphological priming effects for derived and inflected German words. To ensure that priming effects were genuinely morphological, the design also contained semantic and or…
Preserved morphological processing in heritage speakers: A masked priming study on Turkish
In a masked morphological priming experiment, we compared the processing of derived and inflected morphologically complex Turkish words in heritage speakers of Turkish living in Berlin and in native speakers of Turkish raised and living in Turkey. The results show significant derivational and inflectional priming effects of a similar magnitude in the heritage group and the control group. For both participant groups, semantic and orthographic cont…
Priming and the Lexical Boost Effect across Development in a Structurally Biased Language
The present study investigates the developmental trajectory of abstract representations for syntactic structures in children. In a structural priming experiment on the dative alternation in German, we primed children from three different age groups (3-4 years, 5-6 years, 7-8 years) and adults with double object datives (Dora sent Boots the rabbit) or prepositional object datives (Dora sent the rabbit to Boots). Importantly, the prepositional obje…
Cross-linguistic structural priming of innovations in Canadian French: Evidence from a language contact situation
Intra-individual language contact in bilinguals is considered a potential source for the emergence of structural innovations in a language, eventually leading to grammatical language change. This study investigates the psycholinguistic mechanisms involved in this process, focusing on cross-linguistic structural innovation priming. In a web-based self-paced reading experiment with production pre- and posttests, we tested Canadian French–English bi…
The role of cross-linguistic structural priming in contact-induced language change: Ungrammatical comparative priming in Turkish–German bilinguals
Research investigating the psycholinguistic foundations of contact-induced grammatical language change suggests that new structures may enter a language through cross-linguistic priming in bilinguals. However, this assumes that priming effects can emerge even for structures which are ungrammatical in the target language. In the present study, we test this assumption by investigating cross-linguistic ungrammatical priming for analytic comparatives…
Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Language Development and Disorders (3 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · German (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)