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  • Psycholinguistics
  • Sentence Comprehension
  • Grammatical Number

Background:

  • Subject-verb number agreement is susceptible to interference from intervening noun phrases.
  • Ungrammaticality in sentences typically disrupts comprehension, but this effect can be modulated by number agreement cues.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how number agreement errors in sentence production affect sentence comprehension.
  • To determine if comprehenders misinterpret head noun number when local noun phrases and verbs present conflicting number information.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a forced-choice comprehension question method to assess sentence interpretation.
  • Conducted two experiments manipulating number agreement between head nouns, local noun phrases, and verbs.

Main Results:

  • Comprehenders frequently misinterpreted the number of the head noun phrase.
  • Misinterpretation occurred when number markings on the local noun phrase and verb mismatched the head noun.
  • Reduced disruption from ungrammaticality was observed when the local noun phrase was plural.

Conclusions:

  • Sentence comprehension is sensitive to number agreement cues, leading to potential misinterpretations.
  • Comprehenders may not always form interpretations strictly faithful to the linguistic input, especially under agreement conflict.
  • Findings support theories suggesting that sentence interpretation can be influenced by heuristic processing or cue weighting.