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Julie Franck¹, Saveria Colonna², Luigi Rizzi³

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Number mismatch enhances comprehension of French object dependencies in reading tasks but causes attraction errors in grammaticality judgments. Syntactic representations are shared across production and comprehension, but parsing processes differ by task.

Keywords:

agreement attraction c-command comprehension cue-based retrieval intermediate traces intervention number

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Psycholinguistics
Formal Syntax
Experimental Linguistics

Background:

Speakers sometimes produce verbs that incorrectly agree with plural objects in object relative clauses (object attraction).
This phenomenon is linked to formal syntactic concepts like intervention, intermediate traces, and c-command.
Understanding these mechanisms in sentence comprehension is crucial for a complete model of language processing.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate number mismatch effects in the comprehension of object dependencies (A'-dependencies, relative clauses, questions) in French.
To determine if syntactic representations used in comprehension align with those identified in sentence production.
To explore how different parsing tasks (self-paced reading vs. grammaticality judgment) reveal distinct processing mechanisms.

Main Methods:

Three experiments were conducted using French grammatical structures with agreement errors.
Experiment 1: Self-paced reading task to measure reading times on sentences with number mismatch.
Experiments 2 & 3: On-line grammaticality judgment tasks to assess response times to ungrammatical sentences.

Main Results:

Self-paced reading showed an enhancing effect of number mismatch, with faster reading times for plural objects.
Grammaticality judgments revealed an interference effect (attraction), with slower response times for plural objects.
Grammaticality judgments demonstrated stronger attraction from c-commanding interveners than preceding ones.

Conclusions:

Syntactic computations in language performance (production and comprehension) utilize shared syntactic representations.
Different tasks probe distinct parsing processes: self-paced reading reflects subject intervention in A'-dependency building.
Grammaticality judgment reflects object intervention in subject-verb agreement, mirroring structure-dependent attraction effects seen in production.