Syntactic agreement attraction reflects working memory processes

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dc.citation.journalTitleJournal of Cognitive Psychologyen_US
dc.contributor.authorSlevc, L. Roberten_US
dc.contributor.authorMartin, Randi C.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-19T21:20:39Zen_US
dc.date.available2016-09-19T21:20:39Zen_US
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.description.abstractDoes producing syntactic agreement rely on syntactic or memory-based retrieval processes? The present study investigated the extent to which syntactic processing deficits and working memory (WM) deficits predict susceptibility to agreement attraction (Bock & Miller, 1991), where speakers tend to erroneously produce plural agreement for a singular subject when another noun in the sentence is grammatically plural. Four brain-injured patients with varying degrees of grammatical and WM deficits completed sentences with local nouns that matched or mismatched in number with the head noun, and that were plausible or implausible subjects. Both aspects of grammatical deficits and the extent of WM deficits predicted the extent of agreement attraction effects. These data are consistent with the proposal that producing an agreeing verb involves a cue-based search in WM for an appropriate controlling noun, which is subject to interference from other elements in memory with similar properties (cf. Badecker & Kuminiak, 2007).en_US
dc.identifier.citationSlevc, L. Robert and Martin, Randi C.. "Syntactic agreement attraction reflects working memory processes." <i>Journal of Cognitive Psychology,</i> (2016) Taylor & Francis: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2016.1202252.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2016.1202252en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/91577en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.rightsThis is an author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published article is copyrighted by Taylor & Francis.en_US
dc.subject.keywordsyntactic agreementen_US
dc.subject.keywordlanguage productionen_US
dc.subject.keywordshort-term memoryen_US
dc.subject.keywordaphasiaen_US
dc.titleSyntactic agreement attraction reflects working memory processesen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.type.dcmiTexten_US
dc.type.publicationpost-printen_US
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