Heyer, Vera, Dr.

Research

• Native and Non-Native Language Processing (Sprachverarbeitung in Mutter- und Fremdsprachen)
• Second Language Acquisition and Multilingualism (Zweitspracherwerb und Mehrsprachigkeit)
• Morphology (Morphologie)

Projects

• Meta-analysis of inflectional and derivational priming in L2 learners (with João Veríssimo and Clare Patterson)
• Implications of English spelling on morphological processing (with Kristian Berg and Mark Aronoff)

Teaching

• Analyzing Linguistic Data with R (workshop)
• Einführung in die linguistischen Grundlagen des Zweit- und Fremdspracherwerbs (DaF/DaZ-Zertifikat)
• First Language Acquisition
• Introduction to Linguistics I
• Introduction to Linguistics II
• Morphology
• Morphology and the Mental Lexicon
• Psycholinguistics
• Second Language Acquisition
• The Bilingual Mental Lexicon (short course)

Heyer, V. (2024). Experimental morphology. In S. Zufferey & P. Gygax (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Experimental Linguistics (pp. 38-50). Routledge.

Heyer, V. (2021). Below the surface: The application of implicit morpho-graphic regularities to novel word spelling. Morphology, 31(3), 243-260. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-020-09370-6

Heyer, V., & Kornishova, D. (2018). Semantic transparency affects morphological priming…eventually. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71, 1112-1124. DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2017.1310915

Jacob, G., Heyer, V., & Veríssimo, J. (2018). Aiming at the same target: A masked priming study directly comparing derivation and inflection in the second language. International Journal of Bilingualism, 22(6), 619–637. DOI: 10.1177/1367006916688333

Veríssimo, J., Heyer, V., Jacob, G., & Clahsen, H. (2018). Selective effects of age of acquisition on morphological priming: Evidence for a sensitive period. Language Acquisition, 25, 315-326. DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2017.1346104

Aronoff, M., Berg, K. & Heyer, V. (2016). Some implications of English spelling for morphological processing. The Mental Lexicon, 11, 164-185. DOI: 10.1075/ml.11.2.01aro

Heyer, V. & Clahsen, H. (2015). Late bilinguals see a scan in scanner AND in scandal: dissecting formal overlap from morphological priming in the processing of derived nouns. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 18(3), 543-550. DOI: 10.1017/S1366728914000662

Clahsen, H., Gerth, S., Heyer, V. & Schott, E. (2015). Morphology constrains native and non-native word formation in different ways: Evidence from plurals inside compounds. The Mental Lexicon, 10, 53-87. DOI: 10.1075/ml.10.1.03cla

Clackson, K. & Heyer, V. (2014). Reflexive anaphor resolution in spoken language comprehension: Structural constraints and beyond. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 904. DOI: 10.3389%2Ffpsyg.2014.00904

Jaensch, C., Heyer, V., Gordon, P. & Clahsen, H. (2014). What Plurals and Compounds Reveal about Constraints in Word Formation. Language Acquisition, 21, 319-338. DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2014.892949