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Object Attraction in Subject-Verb Agreement Construction

Journal of Memory and Language, 2001
Three 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, Inés Antón-Méndez   +1 more
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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 ...
Angele Brunellière
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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.), Schwarz, Lara, Felser, Claudia (Dr.)   +2 more
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Subject-verb agreement in specific language impairment

, 2012
This study investigates phenomena that have been claimed to be indicative of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) in German, focusing on subject-verb agreement marking. Longitudinal data from fourteen German-speaking children with SLI, seven monolingual and seven Turkish-German successive bilingual children, were examined.
Rothweiler, Monika (Prof. Dr.), Chilla, Solveig, Clahsen, Harald (Prof. Dr.)   +2 more
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Subject-Verb Agreement

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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Subject-Verb Agreement

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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Subject–Verb Agreement Processes in Comprehension

Journal of Memory and Language, 1997
Abstract 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 in English

English Language and Linguistics, 1999
The 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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Production of Subject-Verb Agreement in Spanish as a Second Language

Experimental Psychology, 2003
Abstract. In this paper, we report the results of a study of English speakers who have learned Spanish as a second language. All were late learners who have achieved near- advanced proficiency in Spanish. The focus of the research is on the production of subject-verb agreement errors and the factors that influence the incidence of such errors.
Janet, Nicol, Delia, Greth
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Subject Verb Agreement Asymmetries

2000
Abstract 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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