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Brain response to subject–verb agreement during grammatical priming
Brain Research, 2011 In this study, we explored cerebral mechanisms during the computation of subject-verb agreement by measuring event-related potentials after French verb and pseudoverb targets preceded by various contexts. In auditory grammatical priming, the targets were either related to a congruent predictive pronoun prime (nous prêtons we lend) or an incongruent ...
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Object Attraction in Subject-Verb Agreement Construction
Journal of Memory and Language, 2001Three experiments in which errors of subject-verb agreement were elicited assessed the effects of syntactic function and part of speech of the constituent appearing immediately before the verb. Bock and Miller (Cognitive Psychology, 1991) have shown that constituents modifying the subject exert an "attraction effect", an increased rate of agreement ...
Robert J Hartsuiker +1 more
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Gradience in subject-verb number agreement
, 2021 This study investigates native German speakers' and bilingual Turkish/German speakers' sensitivity to constraints on verbal agreement with pseudo-partitive subjects such as eine Packung Tabletten ("a pack of pills"). Although number agreement with the first noun phrase (headed by a container noun) is considered to be the norm, agreement with the second
Jessen, Anna (Dr.) +2 more
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American Speech, 1934
ject and the verb in idiomatic English constructions. Despite several centuries of rule-making and school-teaching, in which formal concord has always been vigorously imposed, the free idiom of English overleaps the restraining barriers again and again to produce constructions eminently fitting for exact communication, though horrifying to grammarians ...
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ject and the verb in idiomatic English constructions. Despite several centuries of rule-making and school-teaching, in which formal concord has always been vigorously imposed, the free idiom of English overleaps the restraining barriers again and again to produce constructions eminently fitting for exact communication, though horrifying to grammarians ...
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1995
Abstract There is a noticeable difference in subject-verb agreement patterns between standard English and Belfast English. In standard English, the -s ending occurs only with third person singular subjects; in Belfast English, a plural subject NP may occur with a verb showing the -s ending, a phenomenon pointed out in a ...
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Abstract There is a noticeable difference in subject-verb agreement patterns between standard English and Belfast English. In standard English, the -s ending occurs only with third person singular subjects; in Belfast English, a plural subject NP may occur with a verb showing the -s ending, a phenomenon pointed out in a ...
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Subject–verb agreement in English
English Language and Linguistics, 1999The paper rejects the standard view according to which every tensed verb in English agrees with its subject in person and number. It argues that person is irrelevant to all verbs except BE, and that past-tense verbs and modals (other than BE) have no number agreement features.
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Subject–Verb Agreement Processes in Comprehension
Journal of Memory and Language, 1997Abstract Studies of elicited sentence production show that the occasional subject–verb agreement errors that speakers make are more likely to occur when a singular head noun is followed by a plural, as inThe producer of the adventure movies have arrived,than when a plural head is followed by a singular (e.g., Bock & Miller, 1991). The significance of
J.L. Nicol, K.I. Forster, C. Veres
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Subject Verb Agreement Asymmetries
2000Abstract 8.1 Agreement Paradigms Agreement between the verb and the subject in Standard Arabic varies according to word order. When the subject follows the verb, the latter carries person and gender agreement. I will refer to this as partial agreement.
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