Plural processing in native speakers and learners of English  [Elektronische Ressource] : challenging the notion of strictly grammatical plural processing / von Marie-Louise Poschen
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Plural processing in native speakers and learners of English [Elektronische Ressource] : challenging the notion of strictly grammatical plural processing / von Marie-Louise Poschen

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Plural Processing in Native Speakers and Learners of English: Challenging the Notion of Strictly Grammatical Plural ProcessingDissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades in der Philologie an der Universität PaderbornGutachter: Prof. Dr. Manfred PienemannProf. Dr. Gisela Hakansson (Lunds universitet) vonMARIE-LOUISE POSCHENgeboren am 8. Mai 1973 in Marburg / Lahn            Plural Processing in Native Speakers and Learners of English: Challenging the Notion of Strictly Grammatical Plural Processing “Leven is meervoud van lef” Loesje                                      Acknowledgements This dissertation has been part of my life for many years. A number of people have lived through it with me and have supported me and my work in various stages. For this I would like to thank them. First and foremost I would like to thank Professor Dr. Manfred Pienemann for taking me on as a doctoral student and for his willingness to supervise a dissertation on a topic that proved to be less straightforward than we both might have wished. I owe a debt of gratitude to the large number of pupils, teachers, and British military personnel who provided me with such reliable data. I would also like to thank the teachers and administrators at the King´s School Gütersloh, the Reismann Gymnasium Paderborn, the Gymnasium Delbrück, and the Electronic Unit at the Barker Barracks in Paderborn.

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Plural Processing in Native Speakers and
Learners of English: Challenging the Notion of
Strictly Grammatical Plural Processing
Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades in
der Philologie an der Universität Paderborn
Gutachter: Prof. Dr. Manfred Pienemann
Prof. Dr. Gisela Hakansson (Lunds universitet)
von
MARIE-LOUISE POSCHEN
geboren am 8. Mai 1973 in Marburg / Lahn 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Plural Processing in Native Speakers and
Learners of English: Challenging the Notion of
Strictly Grammatical Plural Processing





“Leven is meervoud van lef”
Loesje 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
Acknowledgements
This dissertation has been part of my life for many years. A number of people have lived through it
with me and have supported me and my work in various stages. For this I would like to thank them.
First and foremost I would like to thank Professor Dr. Manfred Pienemann for taking me on as a
doctoral student and for his willingness to supervise a dissertation on a topic that proved to be less
straightforward than we both might have wished.
I owe a debt of gratitude to the large number of pupils, teachers, and British military personnel who
provided me with such reliable data. I would also like to thank the teachers and administrators at the
King´s School Gütersloh, the Reismann Gymnasium Paderborn, the Gymnasium Delbrück, and the
Electronic Unit at the Barker Barracks in Paderborn. I will never forget the sight of some 20 soldiers
in uniform marching to the computer lab at the University of Paderborn in order to take part in the
experiment as part of their exercise drill. The cooperation with all participants and their superiors
proved to be the most enjoyable aspect of the entire PhD project.
The most influential person involved in the process of my dissertation, and the person who brought
colour into my life in Paderborn, was Tanja Ruthenberg, who has been my friend and colleague from
the first moment we met. Tanja and I shared many frustrating, important, dull, joyful, and hilarious
moments. Indeed, she is the only person who knows what I am like under all of those circumstances.
Sharing an office, Tanja and I laughed together, cried together, and supported each other through the
crises in our daily lives; and we both grew in the process over the years. Had it not been for Tanja, I
might have abandoned this endeavour shortly after having undertaken it. I certainly would have
learned less without her, and I definitely would not have had such a good time. And without Tanja, I
would never have met my husband! Tanja, I would like to thank you for your friendship and for being
the person you are.
Thanks a million to Norbert Hagemann who was never too busy or too tired to solve my statistical or
formatting problems. Whenever I asked him, he immediately sat down and explained everything
patiently. Norbert, you are a great statistician, formatter, and above all a great person!
Special thanks must go to my teacher, mentor, and friend Wander Lowie, who was an enormous
source of inspiration in the many supervising sessions in Groningen. Wander, you were such a big
help with the computer programme E-Prime at a time when I was utterly lost. Your many useful tips
helped me strengthen the theoretical part of my dissertation. Thank you too for proofreading those
chapters and for taking so much time to help your former student. My sessions with you in Groningen
inspired me and filled me with the confidence and conviction I needed to see this project through.
They also reminded me of how much fun it could be to work and exchange ideas with others in an
academic environment. In this vein I would also like to mention Floor Buschenhenke and Jacqueline
van der Poel who contributed so much to those sessions. Jacqueline and Wander, you were excellent
hosts: thank you for sharing your culinary delights with me!
I would very much like to thank Oliver Scholle, who was an enormous help programming a program
to match the frequencies of the stimulus words from the CELEX word list. Without Olli, I would
never have been able to test what I set out to test. Thank you, Olli, for selflessly spending so many
weeks helping me. I know you also had a lot of things to do. I really appreciate what you did. I would like to thank Vijaya Kohli for being a friend, source of inspiration, source of encouragement,
and simply for believing in me. Apart from sharing a love of balcony plants, puppadams, and dawn
walks around the Padersee, Viji always showed interest in me and my project, and believed it would
be completed. Thank you, Viji, for so many wonderful hours and for giving me the opportunity to
return to Paderborn to teach and to use your office.
My thanks also to Professor Dr. Günter Rohdenburg for being such a kind spirit with a great sense of
humour. Thank you for providing plenty of opportunities to chat and for inviting me to teach in your
class.
I would also like to thank Anke Lenzing, Jana Roos, and Gabriela Hoffmann for the help you
provided. Even though we were not always in the same city, it was heart-warming that we were able to
help each other with our dissertations and to create a mutually fruitful study environment. Anke and
Gabi, thank you also very much for proofreading the conclusion to my dissertation.
I should not forget to thank Helen Snively. You were a really good ‘thesis therapist,’ Helen! Thank
you so much for all your editing suggestions, your help, your patience, and your emails. Knowing that
someone was reading my emails and following my thoughts actually made the process of completing
the conclusion fun. The story of your role in editing helping me put the finishing touches on my thesis
has become part of our family history. No future Christmas will pass without raising a glass to you.
This dissertation became such an all-consuming part of my life over the years that it was perhaps
inevitable that I would share my trials and tribulations with my closest friends. Aly Jellema, Martin de
Bruijn, and Ernest Ram are just a few of the friends who had to endure my constant complaining. I
even cut a wonderful holiday short because I thought I had to work on my dissertation. What a
mistake! I am also indebted to all the friends whom I have not mentioned, those who contributed to the
success of my project by word and deed, and those who contributed simply by being there for me. At
some point, every one of you heard the excuse that I could not keep in touch because I was so
extremely busy with my dissertation. Please accept my apologies.
My great-grandma Ruth Köller and my grandma Inge Poschen always showed great interest in my
work and supported me in their thoughts. Thank you so much! Grandma Ruth promised to be around
to celebrate the completion of my thesis with me. She kept her promise before passing away at the age
of 102.
I would like to thank my mum and dad for being there and for always supporting me. It was good to
know that you always believed in the importance of my dissertation even though you had no idea what
it was about. It was also good to know that it was completely irrelevant to you whether I wrote a
dissertation or not. You might have been better off had I not researched and written this thing. It was
not always very easy, and you were the first to hear. Thank you for the love you keep on giving.
Finally, I would like to thank my husband, Thomas. You played the decisive role in focusing my
attention on completing the dissertation that I had neglected for many years. I cannot thank you
enough for helping me close one chapter of my life and open a much more exciting new chapter. And
thank you for the role you play in my life. In the end, Alva, Daan, and you made me see the
dissertation in its proper perspective: its importance has faded completely compared to what you have
given me. Plural Processing: 0
1 Introduction 1
The present study 3
Research methodology 4
Outline of the thesis in summary 7
2 Lexical Organisation 9
Meaning and form 9
Levelt´s model of language production 10
Modularity 13
The nature of words 15
Lexicon and conceptualiser 16d Grammar 19
Language development 21
3 Lexical access 25
Comprehension and Production 27
Lexical access models 28
Search model 29
Affix-stripping model 30
Logogen model 31
Cohort model 33
Implications for word recognition 34
4 Number 35
The dual number 39
Numerals 42
Processing linguistic numerosity 43Plural Processing: 1
5 Morphological processing 45
Inflection versus derivation 46
The place of inflections in language representation 48
Split morphology hypothesis 50
Inflections in learner language 51
Different processing accounts 53
Processing differences due to formal morphological properties 54
Language mode 5

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