Misinterpretations in agreement and agreement attraction

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Abstract:: It has been well established that subject–verb number agreement can be disrupted by local noun phrases that differ in number from the subject head noun phrase. In sentence production, mismatches in the grammatical number of the head and local noun phrases lead to agreement errors on the verb as in: the key to the cabinets are. Similarly, although ungrammaticality typically causes disruption in measures of sentence comprehension, the disruption is reduced when the local noun phrase has a plura...
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University of Oxford

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Linguistics Philology and Phonetics Faculty

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Publisher:: Routledge
Journal:: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology More from this journal
Volume:: 69
Issue:: 5
Pages:: 950-971
Publication date:: 2015-01-27
Acceptance date:: 2014-11-21
DOI:: 10.1080/17470218.2014.992445
EISSN:: 1747-0226
ISSN:: 1747-0218

Language:: English
Keywords:: misinterpretation

good-enough processing

agreement attraction

comprehension

agreement
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Deposit date:: 2015-11-12

Copyright holder:: Experimental Psychology Society
Notes:: This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Routledge at https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2014.992445

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