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Agreement and movement: A syntactic analysis of attraction

open access: yesCognition, 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
Julie Franck   +2 more
exaly   +8 more sources

Agreement attraction in Spanish comprehension [PDF]

open access: yesJournal 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.
Sol Lago, Colin Phillips
exaly   +5 more sources

Agreement attraction in Turkish: the case of genitive attractors

open access: yesLanguage, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2021
Speakers have been shown to find sentences with erroneous agreement acceptable under certain conditions. This so-called agreement attraction effect has also been found in genitive-possessive structures such as "the teacher's brother" in Turkish (Lago et ...
Utku Türk, Pavel Logačev
exaly   +5 more sources

Misinterpretations in agreement and agreement attraction [PDF]

open access: yesQuarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2016
It has been well established that subject–verb number agreement can be disrupted by local noun phrases that differ in number from the subject head noun phrase. In sentence production, mismatches in the grammatical number of the head and local noun phrases lead to agreement errors on the verb as in: the key to the cabinets are.
Nikole D Patson, E Matthew Husband
exaly   +5 more sources

Variable agreement with coordinate subjects is not a form of agreement attraction

Journal of Memory and Language, 2018
Abstract Agreement attraction (e.g., ∗The key to the cabinets are rusty) is not attributable to the linear proximity between the local noun and verb (Franck, Vigliocco, & Nicol, 2002). However, agreement with a disjoined subject (e.g., The horses or the clock is red) is specifically sensitive to the number of the nearer noun (Haskell & MacDonald ...
Adrian Staub
exaly   +2 more sources

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