No agreement attraction facilitation observed in Czech: Not even syncretism helps

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Result on the web
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
No agreement attraction facilitation observed in Czech: Not even syncretism helps
Original language description
Agreement attraction (i.e. facilitatory interference manifested by sped-up reading times) observed in establishing subject-verb number agreement by comprehenders when reading ungrammatical sentences with number-matching attractor nouns, has been long-established and cross-linguistically validated. For languages with rich inflectional morphology, case syncretism has been suggested to play a role in the phenomenon. In the present self-paced reading study on Czech, we show that unlike in other languages, facilitatory interference is not observed and that not even case syncretism is sufficient for its appearance. We put forward several possible explanations for this anomaly exhibited by Czech compared to other languages. We propose that the lack of semantic agreement in the language could be one of these. Finally, we discuss the implications of these results for the models of long-distance dependency resolution in comprehension.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
ISBN
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ISSN
1069-7977
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Number of pages
8
Pages from-to
2423-2430
Publisher name
Cognitive Science Society
Place of publication
Toronto
Event location
Toronto
Event date
Jul 27, 2022
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
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