Agreement attraction in Spanish comprehension [PDF]
Journal of Memory and Language, 2015 Previous studies have found that English speakers experience attraction effects when comprehending subject-verb agreement, showing eased processing of ungrammatical sentences that contain a syntactically unlicensed but number-matching noun. In four self-paced reading experiments we examine whether attraction effects also occur in Spanish, a language ...
Colin Phillips +2 more
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Agreement and movement: A syntactic analysis of attraction
Cognition, 2006 This paper links experimental psycholinguistics and theoretical syntax in the study of subject-verb agreement. Three experiments of elicited spoken production making use of specific characteristics of Italian and French are presented. They manipulate and examine its impact on the occurrence of 'attraction' errors (i.e.
Julie Franck, Luigi Rizzi
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Number Agreement Attraction in Czech Comprehension: Negligible Facilitation Effects [PDF]
Open Mind, 2023 Number agreement attraction in comprehension has been extensively studied in various languages and it has been claimed that attraction effects are generally present across languages.
Jan Chromý +2 more
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Agreement attraction error and timing profiles in continuous speech
Glossa Psycholinguistics, 2022 Studies of agreement attraction in language production have shown that speakers systematically produce verb agreement errors in the presence of a local noun whose features differ from that of the agreement controller.
Margaret Kandel +2 more
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Dependency-dependent interference: NPI interference, agreement attraction, and global pragmatic inferences [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 Previous psycholinguistics studies have shown that when forming a long distance dependency in online processing, the parser sometimes accepts a sentence even though the required grammatical constraints are only partially met. A mechanistic account of how
Ming eXiang +2 more
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The role of minority language bilingualism in spotting agreement attraction errors: Evidence from Italian varieties. [PDF]
PLoS ONEBilingual adaptations remain a subject of ongoing debate, with varying results reported across cognitive domains. A possible way to disentangle the apparent inconsistency of results is to focus on the domain of language processing, which is what the ...
Camilla Masullo +2 more
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Modeling Opposite Effects of an Additive on Liquid–Liquid Phase Separation and Crystal Solubility of Protein Solutions [PDF]
MoleculesIn protein solutions, an additive that increases protein–protein attractive interactions is expected to decrease protein crystal solubility and raise the temperature at which liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) occurs. In contrast, addition of 0.10 M 4-
Onofrio Annunziata, Shamberia Thomas
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Representation distortion contributes to agreement attraction in comprehension
Frontiers in Language SciencesSentence comprehension relies on encoding linguistic items in memory and accessing them subsequently to form linguistic dependencies. This makes processing susceptible to memory interference. Interference, such as the distortion of memory representations
Maayan Keshev +4 more
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Agreement attraction in person
, 2022 Agreement attraction effects in comprehension were first found in number (Nicol, Forster & Veres, 1997; Pearlmutter, Garnsey & Bock, 1999; Pearlmutter, 2000), and then in gender agreement (Slioussar & Malko, 2015; Tucker et al., 2015), but ...
Anna Laurinavichyute
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Mismatch asymmetry in gender agreement attraction in Hindi
In many languages verbs covary with its clause subject. This phenomenon is called subject verb agreement. The noun which the verb frequently covary is often called as the controller.
Samar Husain, Pranab Bagartti
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