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  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computational Linguistics

Background:

  • Agreement attraction is a linguistic phenomenon where verbs deviate from grammatical subject agreement, often with unrelated nouns.
  • Comprehenders frequently find these grammatically incorrect sentences acceptable, posing a challenge for linguistic theories.
  • Existing explanations for agreement attraction are broadly categorized into morphosyntactic accounts and general sentence processing models.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether semantic features, akin to grammatical agreement, can also induce attraction effects in sentence processing.
  • To differentiate between morphosyntactic-specific explanations and broader sentence processing models (e.g., Lewis and Vasishth) for attraction phenomena.
  • To examine the interaction between semantic and agreement attraction within sentence comprehension.

Main Methods:

  • Conducted three single-trial experiments in English to compare semantic and agreement attraction.
  • Investigated the interaction between semantic and agreement attraction.
  • Utilized computational simulations to test the predictive power of the Lewis and Vasishth model.

Main Results:

  • All three experiments demonstrated significant semantically induced attraction effects.
  • These semantic attraction effects closely mirrored the patterns observed in agreement attraction.
  • Computational simulations confirmed that the Lewis and Vasishth model accurately reproduced the experimental findings.

Conclusions:

  • The findings indicate that attraction is a more pervasive phenomenon than previously assumed, extending beyond morphosyntax.
  • The results support more general sentence processing models, specifically the Lewis and Vasishth model, over specialized morphosyntactic accounts.
  • Semantic factors play a crucial role in sentence processing, influencing agreement patterns in a manner consistent with memory-based models.