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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"number agreement"”.
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Gender and number agreement processing in Spanish
… focus of this dissertation is the processing of agreement between a subject and predicative adjective in Spanish. The basic methodology often employed in experiments in the literature on subject-verb number agreement was used-participants saw an adjective and a sentence preamble consisting of a …
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Speed limits and red flags: why number agreement accidents happen
… of speed, and vice-versa. In work on grammatical agreement in particular, there are accounts of variability in verb number production that emphasize the roles of lexical sources of number information and accounts that emphasize structural sources. Depending on whether speed or accuracy is measured …
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Accounting for semantic integration: notional and grammatical effects in number agreement
Notional and grammatical number affect agreement in language production. To explore their workings, we investigated how semantic integration, a type of conceptual relatedness, produces changes in agreement (Solomon & Pearlmutter, 2004). Notional and lexical-grammatical number offer alternative …
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Dakota Sioux objects
… main topics dealt with as they relate to verb agreement: advancements to direct object, Possessor Ascensions, and Clause Union. All three of these topics distinguish between direct objects, indirect objects and obliques. </p> <p> Verb agreement is examined and shown to consist of two distinct …
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An analysis of the syntactic and lexical features of an Indian English oral narrative: A Pear Story study.
… nonstandard syntactic features of article use, number agreement and assignment of verb argument structure do not display uniform intragroup distribution. Instead, a relationship is found between nonstandard syntactic features and the sociolinguistic variables of lower levels of exposure to and …
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Where are the cookies? Three-year-olds use number-marked verbs to anticipate upcoming nouns
… use of a particular morphosyntactic dependency: number agreement between a subject and verb in English. Using a looking-while-listening paradigm, we show not only that children make use of this dependency during online comprehension, but also that children use it predictively to anticipate the …
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Inflectional morphology in the literacy of deaf children
… task they revealed sensitivity to subject-verb number agreement. However, deaf children demonstrated limited knowledge of irregular plural nouns and of morpho-syntax. In the self-paced reading task, they were slow to perform syntactic integration and they failed to make explicit use of agreement …
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Knowledge-rich Bridging Anaphora Resolution
… exist at the grammatical (e.g., gender and number agreement), syntactic (e.g., c-command), and semantic (e.g., semantic type agreement) levels that can be used to filter candidate antecedents, such constraints are largely absent for bridging resolution. For instance, a singular bridging …
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Case in Uyghur and beyond
… case, and how case interacts with A-movement and agreement. In chapter 1, I argue on the basis of novel data from Uyghur that noun phrases bearing structural case can still be eligible for raising. I show that raising in Uyghur is EPP-driven, and does not trigger overt agreement. Thus, we must …
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ERP correlates of semantic and syntactic processing in cochlear implant users.
… incongruent or contained a subject-verb number-agreement violation; an equal number of correct sentences were used as a control condition. We tested CI recipients with early deafness onset (< 3 years) or postverbal deafness onset (>3 years) as well as a large population of normal hearing …
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À la recherche de la morphologie silencieuse : sur le développement du pluriel en francais L2 écrit
… The thesis presents a detailed analysis of number marking and agreement in NPs and VPs, focusing mainly on the production of the morphemes –s (in NP) and the third person plural –nt (in VP). These agreements are particularly interesting in French where number morphology is often silent in …
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Types of interference and their resolution in monolingual language production
… competition (picture naming task with name agreement, NA, manipulation) was further investigated in Study 2, while Study 3 extended the notion of separability of the inhibitory processes to grammatical encoding (grammatical voice construction and number agreement computation). In Study 2, …
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The syntactic side of Time: processing Adverb-Verb Temporal Agreement
… the online processing of adverb-verb temporal agreement, namely the coherence in temporal features between the verb and a deictic temporal adverb (e.g. YesterdayPAST I wentPAST/*will goFUT to the jazz concert), during sentence comprehension. There are at least two reasons that make the …
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L’acquisition des Catégories Fonctionnelles : Étude comparative du développement du DP français chez des enfants et des apprenants adultes
… The third analysis shows that the features “number” and “gender” are acquired differently: Number is accessible from an early stage whereas gender is absent at the initial state in both groups. We argue that the development of gender in 2L1 is a consequence of the clitic status of the article …