Agreement attraction in Spanish comprehension

Autores
Lago, Sol; Shalóm, Diego Edgar; Sigman, Mariano; Lau, Ellen F.; Phillips, Colin
Año de publicación
2015
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inglés
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Previous studies have found that English speakers experience attraction effects when comprehending subject–verb agreement, showing eased processing of ungrammatical sentences that contain a syntactically unlicensed but number-matching noun. In four self-paced reading experiments we examine whether attraction effects also occur in Spanish, a language where agreement morphology is richer and functionally more significant. We find that despite having a richer morphology, Spanish speakers show reliable attraction effects in comprehension, and that these effects are strikingly similar to those previously found in English in their magnitude and distributional profile. Further, we use distributional analyses to argue that cue-based memory retrieval is used as an error-driven mechanism in comprehension. We suggest that cross-linguistic similarities in agreement attraction result from speakers deploying repair or error-driven mechanisms uniformly across languages.
Fil: Lago, Sol. University of Maryland; Estados Unidos
Fil: Shalóm, Diego Edgar. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Física. Laboratorio de Neurociencia Integrativa; Argentina
Fil: Sigman, Mariano. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Física. Laboratorio de Neurociencia Integrativa; Argentina
Fil: Lau, Ellen F.. University of Maryland; Estados Unidos
Fil: Phillips, Colin. University of Maryland; Estados Unidos
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Agreement Attraction
Number Morphology
Spanish
Sentence Comprehension
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spelling Agreement attraction in Spanish comprehensionLago, SolShalóm, Diego EdgarSigman, MarianoLau, Ellen F.Phillips, ColinAgreement AttractionNumber MorphologySpanishSentence Comprehensionhttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.7https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1Previous studies have found that English speakers experience attraction effects when comprehending subject–verb agreement, showing eased processing of ungrammatical sentences that contain a syntactically unlicensed but number-matching noun. In four self-paced reading experiments we examine whether attraction effects also occur in Spanish, a language where agreement morphology is richer and functionally more significant. We find that despite having a richer morphology, Spanish speakers show reliable attraction effects in comprehension, and that these effects are strikingly similar to those previously found in English in their magnitude and distributional profile. Further, we use distributional analyses to argue that cue-based memory retrieval is used as an error-driven mechanism in comprehension. We suggest that cross-linguistic similarities in agreement attraction result from speakers deploying repair or error-driven mechanisms uniformly across languages.Fil: Lago, Sol. University of Maryland; Estados UnidosFil: Shalóm, Diego Edgar. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Física. Laboratorio de Neurociencia Integrativa; ArgentinaFil: Sigman, Mariano. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Física. Laboratorio de Neurociencia Integrativa; ArgentinaFil: Lau, Ellen F.. University of Maryland; Estados UnidosFil: Phillips, Colin. University of Maryland; Estados UnidosAcademic Press Inc Elsevier Science2015-07info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/46264Lago, Sol; Shalóm, Diego Edgar; Sigman, Mariano; Lau, Ellen F.; Phillips, Colin; Agreement attraction in Spanish comprehension; Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science; Journal of Memory and Language; 82; 7-2015; 133-1490749-596XCONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749596X15000212info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/j.jml.2015.02.002info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2025-09-03T09:43:44Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/46264instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982025-09-03 09:43:44.319CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Agreement attraction in Spanish comprehension
title Agreement attraction in Spanish comprehension
spellingShingle Agreement attraction in Spanish comprehension
Lago, Sol
Agreement Attraction
Number Morphology
Spanish
Sentence Comprehension
title_short Agreement attraction in Spanish comprehension
title_full Agreement attraction in Spanish comprehension
title_fullStr Agreement attraction in Spanish comprehension
title_full_unstemmed Agreement attraction in Spanish comprehension
title_sort Agreement attraction in Spanish comprehension
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Lago, Sol
Shalóm, Diego Edgar
Sigman, Mariano
Lau, Ellen F.
Phillips, Colin
author Lago, Sol
author_facet Lago, Sol
Shalóm, Diego Edgar
Sigman, Mariano
Lau, Ellen F.
Phillips, Colin
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author2 Shalóm, Diego Edgar
Sigman, Mariano
Lau, Ellen F.
Phillips, Colin
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Agreement Attraction
Number Morphology
Spanish
Sentence Comprehension
topic Agreement Attraction
Number Morphology
Spanish
Sentence Comprehension
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.7
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Previous studies have found that English speakers experience attraction effects when comprehending subject–verb agreement, showing eased processing of ungrammatical sentences that contain a syntactically unlicensed but number-matching noun. In four self-paced reading experiments we examine whether attraction effects also occur in Spanish, a language where agreement morphology is richer and functionally more significant. We find that despite having a richer morphology, Spanish speakers show reliable attraction effects in comprehension, and that these effects are strikingly similar to those previously found in English in their magnitude and distributional profile. Further, we use distributional analyses to argue that cue-based memory retrieval is used as an error-driven mechanism in comprehension. We suggest that cross-linguistic similarities in agreement attraction result from speakers deploying repair or error-driven mechanisms uniformly across languages.
Fil: Lago, Sol. University of Maryland; Estados Unidos
Fil: Shalóm, Diego Edgar. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Física. Laboratorio de Neurociencia Integrativa; Argentina
Fil: Sigman, Mariano. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Física. Laboratorio de Neurociencia Integrativa; Argentina
Fil: Lau, Ellen F.. University of Maryland; Estados Unidos
Fil: Phillips, Colin. University of Maryland; Estados Unidos
description Previous studies have found that English speakers experience attraction effects when comprehending subject–verb agreement, showing eased processing of ungrammatical sentences that contain a syntactically unlicensed but number-matching noun. In four self-paced reading experiments we examine whether attraction effects also occur in Spanish, a language where agreement morphology is richer and functionally more significant. We find that despite having a richer morphology, Spanish speakers show reliable attraction effects in comprehension, and that these effects are strikingly similar to those previously found in English in their magnitude and distributional profile. Further, we use distributional analyses to argue that cue-based memory retrieval is used as an error-driven mechanism in comprehension. We suggest that cross-linguistic similarities in agreement attraction result from speakers deploying repair or error-driven mechanisms uniformly across languages.
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Lago, Sol; Shalóm, Diego Edgar; Sigman, Mariano; Lau, Ellen F.; Phillips, Colin; Agreement attraction in Spanish comprehension; Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science; Journal of Memory and Language; 82; 7-2015; 133-149
0749-596X
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CONICET Digital
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