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An ERP Study on Attraction Effects in Advanced L2 Learners
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 In English, the rule of agreement is quite simple: verbs must agree with their subject head nouns in terms of number features. Despite this simplicity, agreement processing is always interrupted when the subject phrase of the sentence “The key to the ...
Jing Bian, Hui Zhang, Chongfei Sun
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Gender attraction in sentence comprehension
Glossa, 2021 Agreement attraction, where ungrammatical sentences are perceived as grammatical (e.g., *The key to the cabinets were rusty), has been influential in motivating models of memory access during language comprehension. It is contested, however, whether such
David Miller +4 more
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Number Agreement Attraction in Czech and English Comprehension: A Direct Experimental Comparison
Glossa Psycholinguistics, 2023 Number agreement attraction in comprehension is a phenomenon that has been documented in various typologically diverse languages. This evidence has led to claims about the cross-linguistic uniformity of agreement attraction effects and its independence ...
Jan Chromý +3 more
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Agreement attraction in Serbian [PDF]
The Mental Lexicon, 2016 Asymmetric number attraction effects have been typically explained via a privative markedness account: plural nouns are more marked than singular ones and thus stronger attractors. However, this account does not explain results from tripartite systems, in which a third number value is available, like paucal.
Ristic, Bojana +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Previous work on the comprehension of agreement has shown that incorrectly inflected verbs do not trigger responses typically seen with fully ungrammatical verbs when the preceding sentential context furnishes a possibly matching distractor noun (i.e ...
Matthew A. Tucker +3 more
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Gender agreement in Native and Heritage Greek: an attraction study [PDF]
, 2019 Diese Dissertation betrachtet die Beziehung zwischen Parser und Grammatik bei Muttersprachlern (Native Speakers, NS) und Heritage- (Erb-) Sprechern (HS) des Griechischen, indem sie die Mechanismen untersucht, die einer pseudo-Lizenzierung bei ...
Paspali, Anastasia
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(Reversed) Mismatch Asymmetry in English Subject-Verb Agreement
Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2023 This paper investigates, in English, the widely reported mismatch asymmetry, or plural attraction in the production of subject-verb agreement and the relatively less observed reversed mismatch asymmetry, or singular attraction in comprehension. Through a
Nazik DİNÇTOPAL DENİZ +2 more
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Object attraction and the role of structural hierarchy: Evidence from Persian
Glossa, 2020 Research on subject-verb agreement production in SVO languages has shown that objects moved pre-verbally sometimes trigger attraction, i.e., erroneous agreement of the verb with the object rather than the subject.
Arsalan Kahnemuyipour +2 more
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Agreement Attraction in Turkish: The Case of Genitive Attractors
Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2021 Previous studies have shown that speakers may find sentences violating subject-verb agreement grammatical when the sentence contains a feature-matching noun phrase. This so-called agreement attraction effect has also been found in genitive possessive structures such as 'the teacher's brother' in Turkish (Lago et al., 2019), which is in contrast with ...
Utku Türk, Pavel Logačev
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Agreement attraction in person (1st vs. 3rd)
, 2022 Agreement attraction effects 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 were never looked ...
Shravan Vasishth, Anna Laurinavichyute
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