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Symmetric and Asymmetric Patterns of Attraction Errors in Producing Subject-Predicate Agreement in Hebrew: An Issue of Morphological Structure
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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
Language Production and Working Memory: The Case of Subject-Verb Agreement
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Hartsuiker, Robert J.; Barkhuysen, Pashiera N. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2006
In order to study the role of working memory in sentence formulation, we elicited errors of subject-verb agreement in spoken sentence completion, while speakers did or did not maintain an extrinsic memory load (a word list). We compared participants with low and high speaking spans (a measure of verbal working memory for sentence production). As…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Sentence Structure, Nouns, Grammar
The Time Course of Activation of Semantic Information During Spoken Word Recognition.
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Moss, Helen E.; McCormick, Samantha F.; Tyler, Lorraine K. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1997
Investigated the time course of activation of the mental representations of word meanings in a series of three cross-modal priming experiments. The study interprets the data with respect to both localist and distributed implementations of the cohort model. Results indicate that if early competition among simultaneously activated meanings exists,…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Error Analysis (Language), Language Processing, Language Research
The Homophone Effect in Written French: The Case of Verb-Noun Inflection Errors.
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Largy, Pierre; Fayol, Michel – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
Focuses on understanding the mechanisms that underlie the production of homophone confusions in writing. The article overviews five experiments demonstrating that the homophone effect can be experimentally induced in French adults. Findings are interpreted in the framework of an activation model. (45 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Control Groups, Error Analysis (Language), French, Language Processing
One or More Labels on the Bottles? Notional Concord in Dutch and French.
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Vigliocco, Gabriella; And Others – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
Investigated the effects of the number of tokens in the conceptual representation of the to-be-uttered subject noun phrase in experiments in Dutch and French, in which subject-verb agreement errors were induced. Findings revealed a distributivity effect in both languages, supporting an account in which neither null nor post-verbal subjects are the…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, College Students, Concept Formation, Dutch
The Time Course of Grammaticality Judgement.
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Blackwell, Arshavir; And Others – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
Presents the results of three experiments investigating the time course of grammaticality judgement. The high correlations among the experiments suggest that the incremental tasks assigned were tapping into the same decision-making process as is found online. The article discusses the findings' implications for the error types that do and do not…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Cloze Procedure, College Students, Correlation