Some attractions of verb agreement

Article Abstract:

This article examines the psycholinguistics of subject-verb agreement. The authors, analyzing both English and Dutch, argue that agreement in languages involves number marking and number morphing, in which the meaning of numbers is situational.

United States, Netherlands, Analysis, English language, Language and languages, Grammar, Dutch language

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Word and world order: semantic, phonological, and metrical detreminants of serial position

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A study exploring the effects of animacy, word length and prosody on word order variations in language use was conducted on 850 undergraduate students from various US universities in seven experiments. Results indicate that specific linguistic factors affect language use. Animate constituents of a language is created before inanimate constituents and animate leadership is enhanced by grammar roles. In adition, there is no indication of the phonological features of words affecting word order, which suggest that only conceptual factors truly affect word order.

Human information processing, Recollection (Psychology), Recall (Memory)

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Producing number agreement: How pronouns equal verbs

Article Abstract:

A study to assess the properties that verb and pronoun number might share is conducted through an experimental evaluation of the predictions from an expanded marking and morphing account of verb number agreement against the behavior of pronouns under parallel conditions. Results show that pronouns are vulnerable to the same processes and sources of attraction that influence verb numbers implying that 'marking' may be dissociable from the implementation of number agreement during 'morphing'.

Evaluation, Pronouns, Verbs, Grammaticality (Linguistics)

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