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Direct linkBock, Kathryn; Eberhard, Kathleen M.; Cutting, J. Cooper – Journal of Memory and Language, 2004
The major targets of number agreement in English are pronouns and verbs. To examine the factors that control pronoun number and to test pronouns against a psycholinguistic account of how verb number arises during language production, we varied the meaningful and grammatical number properties of agreement controllers and examined the impact of…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Morphology (Languages), Sentence Structure, English
Peer reviewedBock, Kathryn; Miller, Carol A. – Cognitive Psychology, 1991
What errors in English subject-to-verb agreement reveal about the syntactic nature of sentence subjects was investigated. Participants in 3 experiments included 104 undergraduates and 64 members of a university community. Results suggest the abstract syntactic relation of subject controls/mediates verb agreement, not notional properties and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English, Grammar, Higher Education
