Agreement attraction in native and nonnative speakers of German
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DOI: 10.1017/s0142716417000601
Abstract: ABSTRACT Second language speakers often struggle to apply grammatical constraints such as subject–verb agreement. One hypothesis for this difficulty is that it results from problems suppressing syntactically unlicensed constituents in working memory. We investigated which… read more here.
Keywords: linear distance; agreement; agreement attraction; speakers german ... See more keywords
Literacy overrides effects of animacy: A picture-naming study with pre-literate German children and adult speakers of German and Arabic
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0298659
Abstract: Animacy plays a key role for human cognition, which is also reflected in the way humans process language. However, while experiments on sentence processing show reliable effects of animacy on word order and grammatical function… read more here.
Keywords: effects animacy; picture naming; entity; speakers german ... See more keywords