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"Buenos dias", "buenas noches" -- this was the first words in a foreign language I heard in my life, as a three-year old boy growing up in developing post-war Western Germany, where the first gastarbeiters had arrived from Spain. Fascinated by the strange sounds, I tried to get to know some more languages, the only opportunity being TV courses of English and French -- there was no foreign language education for pre-teen school children in Germany yet in those days. Read more

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Name:	Claudia  Felser
Institution:	Universität Potsdam
Email:	click here to access email
State and/or Country:	Germany
Linguistic Field(s):	Psycholinguistics Syntax
Selected Publications:
Announced on LINGUIST :	Verbal Complement Clauses: A Minimalist Study of Direct Perception Constructions
Academic Paper Abstract:	Gaps in second language sentence processing WH-EXPLETIVES AND SECONDARY PREDICATION: GERMAN PARTIAL WH-MOVEMENT RECONSIDERED Grammatical processing in language learners The on-line application of binding Principle A in English as a second language Plausibility and recovery from garden paths in second language sentence processing Processing reflexives in a second language: The timing of structural and discourse-level constraints The Timing of Island Effects in Nonnative Sentence Processing Preposition Copying and Pruning in Present-Day English
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