Syntactic agreement attraction reflects working memory processes

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dc.citation.journalTitleJournal of Cognitive Psychology
dc.contributor.authorSlevc, L. Robert
dc.contributor.authorMartin, Randi C.
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-19T21:20:39Z
dc.date.available2016-09-19T21:20:39Z
dc.date.issued2016
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).
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.
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2016.1202252
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/91577
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
dc.rightsThis is an author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published article is copyrighted by Taylor & Francis.
dc.subject.keywordsyntactic agreement
dc.subject.keywordlanguage production
dc.subject.keywordshort-term memory
dc.subject.keywordaphasia
dc.titleSyntactic agreement attraction reflects working memory processes
dc.typeJournal article
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dc.type.publicationpost-print
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