Gender attraction in sentence comprehension
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Agreement attraction, where ungrammatical sentences are perceived as grammatical (e.g., *The key to the cabinets were rusty), has been influential in motivating models of memory access during language comprehension. It is contested, however, whether such effects arise due a faulty representation relevant morphosyntactic features, or result retrieval. Existing studies agreement attraction comprehension have largely limited subject-verb number agreement, primarily English, and while other phenomena gender investigated production, very few focused on We conducted five experiments investigating noun-adjective Spanish. Our results indicate online sentence processing that consistent with approaches ascribing interference retrieval, rather than features. interpret our findings predictions cue-based parsing.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Glossa
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2397-1835']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1300