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Electrophysiology of subject-verb agreement mediated by speakers’ gender [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
An important property of speech is that it explicitly conveys features of a speaker's identity such as age or gender. This event-related potential (ERP) study examined the effects of social information provided by a speaker’s gender, i.e.
Adriana eHanulíková   +3 more
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Processing coordinate subject-verb agreement in L1 and L2 Greek [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2016
The present study examines the processing of subject-verb (SV) number agreement with coordinate subjects in preverbal and postverbal positions in Greek. Greek is a language with morphological number marked on nominal and verbal elements.
Maria eKaltsa   +3 more
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The neurocognitive processing mechanism of English subject-verb agreement by Chinese-speaking learners [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology
Determiner phrases (DPs), an overarching term, can be classified into two determiner types: referential determiner phrases (RDPs, e.g., the boy) and quantificational determiner phrases (QDPs, e.g., each boy).
Mingjun Wu, Miaomiao Li, Di Wu
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Emotional Attractors in Subject-Verb Number Agreement

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
Considering the crosstalk between brain networks that contain linguistic and emotional information and that no studies have examined the impact of semantic information of affective nature on subject-verb number agreement, the present Event Related ...
Anna Hatzidaki, Mikel Santesteban
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Acehnese and English Subject-Predicate Concord: A Contrastive Analysis

open access: yesJournal of English Teaching and Linguistics, 2023
Contrastive analysis as a synchronic method in language analysis used in this study to show similarities and differences between languages or dialects in order to solve practical problems related to languages, such as language teaching and translation ...
Inas Ghina, Rahil Helmi
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(Reversed) Mismatch Asymmetry in English Subject-Verb Agreement

open access: yesDilbilim 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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EFL Students’ Difficulties on Using Subject-Verb Agreement

open access: yesJournal of English Education and Teaching, 2023
The purpose of this study is to determine the common subject-verb agreement difficulties that students encounter in the English Education Study Program at the University of Bengkulu. This study adopted a qualitative methodology.
Amara Aulia Putri, Erni Sukesi, Zahrida
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Analyzing word order variation and agreement asymmetry in SVO and VSO structures of Standard Arabic: Towards a unified account

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities, 2023
Standard Arabic (SA) exhibits two common word orders: subject-verb-object (SVO) and verb-subject-object (VSO). In SA, agreement is contingent on word order.
Ahmad Radi Alshammari
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Numeral Subjects in Polish: Surface Morphology vs. Abstract Syntax [PDF]

open access: yesBeiträge zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft, 2021
Numeral subjects in Polish show a non-uniform agreement pattern with the verb depending on the cardinality of the numeral (paucal vs. high) and the gender of the NP. Full agreement shows with paucal numerals (
Jacek Witkoś
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Subject-verb Agreement in Constructions with Quantifiers in Russian

open access: yesPoljarnyj Vestnik: Norwegian Journal of Slavic Studies, 2021
The agreement of subject and predicate in Russian is actually much less trivial than it might seem at first glance. This paper deals with the case when the subject is realized by a combination of a noun with a quantifier. I analyze a set of examples with
Anna Aksenova
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