2016
DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2015.1136426
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The impact of notional number and grammatical gender on number agreement with conjoined noun phrases

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“…Subject-verb agreement anomalies. Errors in subject-verb number agreement have been extensively studied in production, using sentence completion paradigms (e.g., Bock & Miller, 1991;Brehm & Bock, 2017;Lorimor, Jackson, Spalek, & van Hell, 2016), and in comprehension, using reading studies and measures of sentence misinterpretations (e.g., Patson & Husband, 2016;Pearlmutter, Garnsey, & Bock, 1999;Wagers, Lau, & Phillips, 2009). The basic finding is that in production, singular heads with plural local (intervening) nouns elicit more number-marking errors on the verb (productions of 1a vs 1b, conventionally correct) than do comparable items with singular local nouns (productions of 1c vs 1d).…”
Section: Speaker-specific Anomaly Processingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Subject-verb agreement anomalies. Errors in subject-verb number agreement have been extensively studied in production, using sentence completion paradigms (e.g., Bock & Miller, 1991;Brehm & Bock, 2017;Lorimor, Jackson, Spalek, & van Hell, 2016), and in comprehension, using reading studies and measures of sentence misinterpretations (e.g., Patson & Husband, 2016;Pearlmutter, Garnsey, & Bock, 1999;Wagers, Lau, & Phillips, 2009). The basic finding is that in production, singular heads with plural local (intervening) nouns elicit more number-marking errors on the verb (productions of 1a vs 1b, conventionally correct) than do comparable items with singular local nouns (productions of 1c vs 1d).…”
Section: Speaker-specific Anomaly Processingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Her research shows that English speakers produce more singular agreement with conjoined noun phrases that are of low individuation. The same pattern has been found in Dutch and German number agreement with conjoined noun phrases (Lorimor et al 2016). Lorimor (2007) argues that this effect has to do with notional number; she showed with speaker ratings that mass nouns and abstract noun phrase conjunctions are more likely to be perceived as a single mass without boundaries.…”
Section: The Individuation Hierarchy: Conjunct Semantics and Agreemenmentioning
confidence: 53%
“…I argue that the neuter singular agreement with conjoined noun phrases in the data should be seen as semantic default agreement that is triggered by referents of low individuationcomparable to Scandinavian pancake agreement (Enger 2004;, singular agreement based on notional number in English, Dutch, and German (Lorimor 2007;Lorimor et al 2016), generic neuter singular with indefinite mass nouns in Faroese (Petersen 2009), as well as the semantically motivated use of neuter singular in pronominal agreement with referents of low individuation in e.g. Dutch and German (Audring 2009;Kraaikamp 2017).…”
Section: Neuter Singular As Semantic Agreementmentioning
confidence: 91%
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“…Research has shown that these errors are not dependent on surface properties such as proximity (Bock & Cutting, 1992;Franck et al, 2002;Solomon & Pearlmutter, 2004;Vigliocco & Nicol, 1998) or phonological properties of the plural (Bock & Eberhard, 1993). Instead, these errors are particularly sensitive to syntactic manipulations (Bock & Eberhard, 1993;Franck et al, 2002;Vigliocco & Nicol, 1998), although they can also be affected by other more conceptual or semantic factors (e.g., Lorimor, Jackson, Spalek, & van Hell, 2016;Thornton & MacDonald, 2003;Vigliocco, Hartsuiker, Jarema, & Kolk, 1996). A critical characteristic of these errors is their asymmetry: They occur more often when the subject head is singular and the attractor noun is plural (e.g., "the key to the cabinets") than when both nouns have the same number (e.g., "the key to the cabinet" and "the keys to the cabinets") or when the head is plural and the attractor noun singular (e.g., "the keys to the cabinet").…”
Section: Attraction Errors In Subject-verb Agreementmentioning
confidence: 99%