Processing agreement in Hindi: When agreement feeds attraction

• Attraction effects are investigated in Hindi subject-verb and object-verb agreement. Three experiments exhibit agreement attraction effects. One experiment shows no There is indication that role, case or syntactic prominence directly impact computation. Agreement controllers one clause create another Hindi. Previous studies have demonstrated languages. It an open question whether such extend to languages whose systems differ from this pattern. To address question, we conducted four forced-choice completion investigating processing has a mixed-agreement system, where occur complementary structural contexts. We observed clear both subject object But found little evidence the distractor NP’s modulated attraction. Rather, occurred when was itself controller. propose Controller Coding account speakers actively identify NP controller encode information memory, with interference arising primarily multiple NPs encoded as controllers.