<i>Straight from the horse’s mouth</i>

Lago, Sol; Gračanin-Yuksek, Martina; Şafak, Duygu Fatma; Demir, Orhan; Kırkıcı, Bilal; Felser, Claudia

doi:10.1075/lab.17019.lag

Cited by 33 publications

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“…2 For Group 3, it was run on a web-based platform using Ibex Farm (Drummond, 2013). This method was found to be reliable in several previous psycholinguistic studies including those dedicated to L2 processing (e.g., Lago et al, 2019).…”

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confidence: 76%

Becoming Native-Like for Good or Ill: Online and Offline Processing of Case Forms in L2 Russian

2021

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One of the central questions in second language processing studies is whether native (L1) and second language (L2) readers process sentences relying on the same mechanisms or there are qualitative differences. As their proficiency grows, L2 readers become more efficient, but it is difficult to determine whether they develop native-like mechanisms or rely on different strategies. Our study contributes to this debate by focusing on constructions that were demonstrated to cause characteristic problems in L1 processing: a particular type of case errors in Russian was taken as an example. We investigated how beginner and intermediate learners of Russian process such errors, measuring reading times and grammaticality judgment accuracy. At the beginner level, we found non-native-like patterns both in online and in offline measures. But at the intermediate level, native-like problems emerged in offline measures. In our view, this is a strong indication that these readers are using the same underlying mechanisms as in L1 processing. In online measures, L2 readers at both levels were, in general, much slower than native participants and exhibited characteristic non-native-like patterns, which we explained by delayed morphosyntactic processing. We conclude that our results are compatible with approaches, assuming that the mechanisms for L1 and advanced L2 processing are the same, but L2 processing is more cognitively demanding and therefore slower.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 76%

Becoming Native-Like for Good or Ill: Online and Offline Processing of Case Forms in L2 Russian

2021

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“…On the contrary, grammatical sentences are predicted to remain unaffected (but see Sturt, 2018 andJäger et al, 2017 for inhibitory interference in grammatical sentences with longdistance dependencies) given that the verb is not specified for number and the first NP offers a full match. Certain studies on comprehension have confirmed this hypothesis, mostly for number (e.g., Wagers et al, 2009;Lago et al, 2015Lago et al, , 2018Slioussar, 2018).…”

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confidence: 89%

“…Additionally, 104 filler sentences were constructed; half of them were ungrammatical including a variety of violations. The agreement target was in sentence-final position following the previous literature of s-GJTs (e.g., Tanner et al, 2014;Lago et al, 2018;Hammerly et al, 2019) and an adverb (Supplementary Material S5) was also added before the agreement target to increase the processing demands of the task ("John was looking for the recipe for the bread and (he) eventually found it").…”

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confidence: 99%

Gender Agreement Attraction in Greek Comprehension

Paspali

Marinis

2020

Front. Psychol.

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This work explores gender agreement attraction in comprehension. Attraction occurs when an agreement error (such as, "the key to the cabinets are rusty") goes unnoticed, leading to the illusion of grammaticality due to a mismatch between the value of the head and the value of a local intervening phase (attractor). According to retrieval accounts, these errors occur during cue retrieval from memory and predict illusions of grammaticality. Alternatively, representational accounts predict that the errors occur due to the faulty representation of certain features, thus, illusions of ungrammaticality are also expected. In four experiments we explore: (a) whether gender agreement attraction occurs in Greek and the strategy/-ies employed, (b) the role of the agreement target, (c) the timing of gender agreement attraction, (d) the role of phonological matching between the nominal inflectional morphemes of the attractor and the agreement target, and (e) participants' sensitivity to agreement when there is no conflict from the attractor. In all four experiments, the grammaticality of the sentence and the attractor value (match or mismatch with the head) and also the phonological matching between the attractor and the agreement target in ungrammatical sentences were manipulated. The agreement target was either an adjectival predicate or an object-clitic and the gender value of the head was feminine or neuter. Attraction was found in all measures during the timecourse of adjectival predicates (Experiment 1) and object-clitics (Experiment 2), and in timed (Experiment 3), and untimed (Experiment 4) judgments. Even more, both gender values showed attraction and the results mainly suggest that participants experience illusions of grammaticality, confirming retrieval accounts. Phonological matching did not modulate attraction in any of the experiments, suggesting that the similarity in the morphophonological realization between the agreement target and the attractor does not increase attraction. Furthermore, participants were sensitive to gender agreement violations in the absence of gender mismatch between the head and the attractor, suggesting that they respect agreement rules and have both neuter and feminine available in their feature content repertoire, although with some tendency in favor of neuter in feminine agreement contexts. The impact of these findings is discussed within the concept of attraction and sensitivity to agreement violations.

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“…Let us start with number agreement attraction in comprehension in its reading times reflex. This has been documented in English (Wagers et al, 2009;Tanner et al, 2014;Parker & An, 2018), German (Lago & Felser, 2018), Turkish (Lago et al, 2019;Turk & Logačev, 2021), Spanish (Lago et al, 2015), Armenian (Avetisyan et al, 2020), Arabic (Tucker et al, 2015), French (Franck et al, 2015), and Russian (Slioussar, 2018). These studies represent a substantial amount of evidence in favour of the effect bein robust and present across different languages, which has also been supported by a meta-analysis (Jäger et al, 2017).…”

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confidence: 66%

Under no illusion: An acceptability study on Czech agreement attraction

Lacina¹

2023

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Agreement attraction has been extensively studied in many languages and in both the production and comprehension of language. In comprehension, it has been found that ungrammatical sentences such as *The key to the cabinets were rusty are often judged as grammatical due to the presence of the attractor word cabinets that matches the verbal auxiliary in number. This is not the case when the attractor word is not plural, but singular (cabinet). This illusion of grammaticality has been documented in many of the world’s languages. Here, we report an untimed acceptability judgement experiment that tested the presence of this illusion with native speakers of Czech. We find evidence that Czech comprehenders notice the ungrammatical agreement pattern and judge these sentences as less acceptable, but that they are not affected by the the number-match of the attractor in any way.

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Straight from the horse’s mouth

Cited by 33 publications

References 55 publications

Becoming Native-Like for Good or Ill: Online and Offline Processing of Case Forms in L2 Russian

Becoming Native-Like for Good or Ill: Online and Offline Processing of Case Forms in L2 Russian

Gender Agreement Attraction in Greek Comprehension

Under no illusion: An acceptability study on Czech agreement attraction

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