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Agreement attraction in grammattical sentences

open access: yes, 2022
This study explores agreement attraction effects in comprehension of grammatical sentences -- attraction effects were difficult to find in this setup, their existence is debated.
Titus von der Malsburg   +1 more
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Processing agreement in Hindi: When agreement feeds attraction

open access: yesJournal of Memory and Language, 2020
Previous studies have demonstrated robust agreement attraction effects in subject-verb agreement languages. It is an open question whether such attraction effects extend to languages whose agreement systems differ from this prototypical agreement pattern.
Sakshi Bhatia, Brian Dillon
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Number agreement attraction in Hindi - Experiment 1

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

On the Nature of Clitics and Their Sensitivity to Number Attraction Effects

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2017
Pronominal dependencies have been shown to be more resilient to attraction effects than subject-verb agreement. We use this phenomenon to investigate whether antecedent-clitic dependencies in Spanish are computed like agreement or like pronominal ...
Mikel Santesteban   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Psychiatric agreement regarding patient “attractiveness”

open access: yesComprehensive Psychiatry, 1967
Summary In a general psychiatric outpatient clinic it was found that a group of more or less psychiatrically sophisticated raters could accurately judge, at a high level of significance, the actual dispositions of patients from a group of edited intake notes. The raters were also asked to judge a list of hypothetical patient attributes in relation to
R J, Thurrell, H, Levitt
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Keeping it simple: Studying grammatical encoding with lexically-reduced item sets

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2014
Compared to the large body of work on lexical access, little research has been done on grammatical encoding in language production. An exception is the generation of subject-verb agreement.
Alma eVeenstra   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Probabilistic and Syntactic Account of Variable Clitic Agreement in Spanish Double Object Constructions

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
In Spanish clitic-doubling constructions, the clitic should agree in number with its coreferential doubled noun phrase. However, the present corpus analysis with data from 21 Spanish varieties reveals that, under certain structural configurations, number
Gustavo Guajardo
doaj   +1 more source

Agreement attraction in Spanish comprehension

open access: yes, 2020
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   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Agreement attraction from mentioned words

open access: yes, 2021
This study aims to investigate the processing of mentioned words (e.g. "dogs" in "the word 'dogs' ") by using agreement attraction effects as an indirect measure of the consideration of the canonical grammatical properties of the word being ...
Matt Wagers, John Duff
core   +1 more source

Modeling Misretrieval and Feature Substitution in Agreement Attraction: A Computational Evaluation [PDF]

open access: yesCognitive Science, 2020
Abstract We present computational modeling results based on a self‐paced reading study investigating number attraction effects in Eastern Armenian. We implement three novel computational models of agreement attraction in a Bayesian framework and compare their predictive fit to the data using k‐fold cross‐validation.
Dario Paape   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources

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