Ambiguity in case marking does not affect the description of transitive events in German: evidence from sentence production and eye-tracking

The current study examined how German speakers described a scene where an agent acts upon patient when the of event was cued (a red dot preceding patient, Experiment 1 vs. preview 2). Prior research has shown that effects attention manipulation on syntactic choice display cross-linguistic variation with notable differences between languages have morphological case marking noun phrases and English lacks such marking. Since in nominative subject accusative object are unambiguously marked masculine nouns but not feminine nouns, it provides ideal testing ground to investigate affects sentence production. Our results did reveal any effect although different types were effective. Moreover, eye-gaze data revealed applied same sentence-planning strategy for both (unambiguous) (ambiguous).