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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
