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Deutsch, Avital; Dank, Maya – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2011
A common characteristic of subject-predicate agreement errors (usually termed attraction errors) in complex noun phrases is an asymmetrical pattern of error distribution, depending on the inflectional state of the nouns comprising the complex noun phrase. That is, attraction is most likely to occur when the head noun is the morphologically…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Patterns, Nouns, Suffixes
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Lorimor, Heidi; Bock, Kathryn; Zalkind, Ekaterina; Sheyman, Alina; Beard, Robert – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2008
We assessed whether and under what conditions noncanonical agreement patterns occur in Russian, with the goal of understanding the factors involved in normal agreement. Russian is a morphosyntactically rich language in which agreement involves features for number, gender, and case. If consistent, overt specification of number and gender agreement…
Descriptors: Sentences, Morphology (Languages), Russian, Grammar
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Allen, Mark; Badecker, William; Osterhout, Lee – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2003
Examined the effects of syntactic (tense) violations occurring on regularly versus irregularly inflected verbs using event-related brain potentials (ERPs). Discusses implications of the results with respect to morphological parsing, the time course of syntactic feature analysis, and their consequent effects on temporal properties of ERP…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Morphology (Languages), Sentence Structure, Tenses (Grammar)
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Bertram, Raymond; Hyona, Jukka; Laine, Matti – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2000
Focuses on the role of context on the processing of inflected nouns in Finnish. Identification of partitive plurals with the homonymic suffix -jA was studied by presenting the target nouns in a sentence context and by recording durations of readers' eye fixations and self-paced reading times for these targets. Results are discussed. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Context Effect, Eye Fixations, Finnish
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Emmorey, Karen – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1997
Discusses two experiments investigating non-antecedent suppression in American Sign Language (ASL). Findings indicate that spoken and signed languages use the same processing mechanisms in resolving co-reference relations. Results also indicate that within the probe recognition paradigm, the spatial indexing of ASL pronouns is similar to gender…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, English, Error Analysis (Language)
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Hall, Christopher J. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1995
Argues that the nature of mental representation contributes little to the specification of synchronic syntactic competence. Psycholinguists, syntacticians, and morphologists can benefit from a collaborative approach to the construction of an integrative model of language and mind, covering competence, representation, processing, and acquisition.…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Processes, Descriptive Linguistics, Language Research