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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"subject-verb agreement"”.
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Number matters: enhancing nominal number to facilitate subject-verb agreement
… whether Chinese-speaking learners’ processing of subject-verb (S-V) agreement in English is modulated by the accessibility of number features in the subject noun phrase, given that in English S-V agreement the verbal form is dependent on the number of the sentence subject. It has been argued that …
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Coming to agreement: representation and processing of English subject-verb agreement in acquisition
… grammatical development. In this project, we use subject-verb agreement as a tool for investigating how young children learn and process formal linguistic relationships, considering both classic questions about the role of semantic and syntactic- distributional knowledge in acquisition, and …
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Morphological variability in long-distance subject-verb agreement: A study of native and nonnative processing
… two linguistic factors on the establishment of subject-verb agreement: structural distance and plural markedness. The study also investigated the effects of task demands on processing of agreement morphology. Participants completed an online reading task using a moving window self-paced reading …
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An analysis of written concord errors among Grade 12 First Additional Language learners in Vhembe District of Limpopo Province, South Africa
… are the most common types of written concord/ subject-verb agreement errors which are committed by Grade 12 FAL learners and what are the causes thereof? The study employed both the quantitative and the qualitative methods to pursue the primary question. Learners responded to the questionnaires …
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English interlanguage of Palestinian University students in Gaza Strip : an analysis of relative clauses and verb tense
… and imperfective aspects, respectively. The subject-verb agreement marker and the concord markers 's/is and 'm/am are omitted in relative clauses and when there is a change in aspect.In the area of relative clauses, the data show that relative clauses are ninety percent independent of the …
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Subjects and the clausal structure of Chinese and English
… The core idea explored is that the absence of subject-verb agreement (i.e. Agr) in Chinese and its presence in English has wide-ranging consequences, most fundamentally in the clausal structure of the two languages. The principles and parameters framework developed in Chomsky 1981 and Chomsky …
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The syntactic side of Time: processing Adverb-Verb Temporal Agreement
… mechanisms underlying 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 …
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Comprehension of verb inflection in German-speaking children
Previous studies on the acquisition of verb inflection in normally developing children have revealed an astonishing pattern: children use correctly inflected verbs in their own speech but fail to make use of verb inflections when comprehending sentences uttered by others. Thus, a three-year old …
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Non-Nominative Subject Constructions in the Government and Binding Framework
… to account for the behavior of non-nominative subjects in the Government and Binding framework, a version of the Extended Standard Theory. Non-nominative subjects are NPs which are not case marked with nominative case and which do not trigger subject verb agreement. These NPs, however, may …
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Second language processing in reading and translation
… paradigm whether L2 learners show sensitivity to subject-verb agreement violations similar to native speakers during on-line comprehension, and how task effects modulate the sensitivity. The results show that L2 learners are able to display sensitivity to morphoglical violations during reading, …
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Using Two-Level Grammars to Describe the Syntax of English.
… may be used to verify that the sentence exhibits subject/verb agreement, subject/object agreement (if required), and other important context checks. 2LGs have significant advantages over other methods used to describe and analyze English sentences. Generally, each researcher in the area of …
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A transformational treatment of Indian English syntax
… adjectivalization and various aspects of the verb phrase. The comparative, passive, questions, expletive “there”, adverbs and deletions are also discussed. In Chapter III, questions, relatives, nominal modifiers, subject-verb agreement, the comparative and passive in Hindi and English are …
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An analysis of syntactic errors in sentence construction: a case study of selected undergraduate first-year English majors in a South African University
… consist of three important components: the subject, the verb, and the object. These components should be effectively aligned in both simple, compound, and complex sentences to convey a complete, meaningful thought. If the subjects and verbs are not effectively aligned, it may be difficult …
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Is cue-based memory retrieval 'good-enough'?: Agreement, comprehension, and implicit prosody in native and bilingual speakers of English
… during reading, examining their influence on agreement processing and comprehension in native English (L1) and Spanish-English bilingual (L2) speakers. I consolidate research from three distinct areas of inquiry'cognitive processing models, development of reading fluency, and L1/L2 processing …
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A Controlled Composition-Based Exercise Program to Teach Error Remediation in Writing in the High School Regular Freshman English Classroom
… of sentence fragments, three types of lack of subject-verb agreement, and faulty possession. The materials were used with two high school freshman regular English classes for fourteen days. Prior to the beginning of the unit, the students' three areas of greatest need for remediation were …
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Cause, Composition, and Structure in Language
… of noisy-channel inference in resolving subject-verb agreement mismatches such as "The gift for the kids are hidden under the bed". Results suggest that native-speakers' inferences reflect both prior expectations and structure-sensitive conditioning of error probabilities consistent with …
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Coordination and concord in generalized categorial grammar
… the interaction between coordination and agreement, including the resolution of distinct features of the individual conjuncts of a coordinated NP and the mechanism for the concord which holds between such an NP and its agreement partner, typically the subject and its verb. A wide range of …
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PRONOUN-ANTECEDENT AGREEMENT (BINDING) IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE
… advocated by (Carminati, 2002), null and overt subjects retrieve antecedents in different structural positions. Pronoun-antecedent agreement is based exclusively on the syntactic configuration of a clause in which a null pronoun is bound to a sentential subject antecedent; however, an overt …
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