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Staub, Adrian – Cognition, 2010
Speakers are known to make subject-verb agreement errors both when a number-mismatching noun intervenes between the head of the subject phrase and the verb (e.g., "*The key to the cabinets are on the table") and in configurations in which there is a number-mismatching noun that does not intervene (e.g., "*The cabinets that the key open are on the…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Verbs, Nouns, Grammar
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Drieghe, Denis; Pollatsek, Alexander; Staub, Adrian; Rayner, Keith – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2008
The distribution of landing positions and durations of first fixations in a region containing a noun preceded by either an article (e.g., the soldiers) or a high-frequency 3-letter word (e.g., all soldiers) were compared. Although there were fewer first fixations on the blank space between the high-frequency 3-letter word and the noun than on the…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Nouns, Human Body, Reading Processes