A Nevins - Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2011 - Springer
This paper capitalizes on the difference between person complementarity (eg PCC effects) and omnivorous number (eg the fact that a single plural marker can be used to cross …
This work investigates the processing of Italian subject pronouns, both the null and the overt pronoun, in intra-sentential anaphora. A processing hypothesis is proposed, the Position of …
NJ Pearlmutter, SM Garnsey, K Bock - Journal of Memory and language, 1999 - Elsevier
Three experiments examined the processing of subject–verb agreement in sentence comprehension. Experiment 1 used a word-by-word self-paced moving window reading …
Grammatical agreement flags the parts of sentences that belong together regardless of whether the parts appear together. In English, the major agreement controller is the …
N Sagarra, J Herschensohn - Lingua, 2010 - Elsevier
Most adult learners cannot attain native competence in a second language (L2). Some approaches maintain that L2 learners cannot access features unavailable in L1 after puberty …
J Franck, G Vigliocco, J Nicol - Language and cognitive processes, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
We report two parallel experiments conducted in French and in English in which we induced subject-verb agreement errors to explore the role of syntactic structure during sentence …
This monograph presents evidence from an interrelated set of experiments designed to investigate aspects of sentence processing comparing bilinguals and monolinguals, testing …
J Franck, G Lassi, UH Frauenfelder, L Rizzi - Cognition, 2006 - Elsevier
This paper links experimental psycholinguistics and theoretical syntax in the study of subject– verb agreement. Three experiments of elicited spoken production making use of specific …
English has an interesting variety of noun phrases, which differ greatly in structure. Examples are'binominal'(two-noun) phrases ('a beast of a party'); possessive constructions …