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Hierarchy and Scope of Planning in Subject-Verb Agreement Production
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Gillespie, Maureen; Pearlmutter, Neal J. – Cognition, 2011
Two subject-verb agreement error elicitation studies tested the hierarchical feature-passing account of agreement computation in production and three timing-based alternatives: linear distance to the head noun, semantic integration, and a combined effect of both (a scope of planning account). In Experiment 1, participants completed subject noun…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Semantics, Verbs, Nouns
The Effect of Verb Semantic Class and Verb Frequency (Entrenchment) on Children's and Adults' Graded Judgements of Argument-Structure Overgeneralization Errors
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Ambridge, Ben; Pine, Julian M.; Rowland, Caroline F.; Young, Chris R. – Cognition, 2008
Participants (aged 5-6 yrs, 9-10 yrs and adults) rated (using a five-point scale) grammatical (intransitive) and overgeneralized (transitive causative) uses of a high frequency, low frequency and novel intransitive verb from each of three semantic classes [Pinker, S. (1989a). "Learnability and cognition: the acquisition of argument structure."…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Grammar, Semiotics