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Agreement attraction in Spanish comprehension
, 2018 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.
Mariano Sigman +4 more
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Agreement processing and attraction errors in aging
Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 2016 Effects of aging on lexical processing are well attested, but the picture is less clear for grammatical processing. Where age differences emerge, these are usually ascribed to working-memory (WM) decline.
Hauer, Franziska +2 more
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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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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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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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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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Number agreement attraction in Hindi - Experiment 1
, 2023 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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