Analysis of Subject-Verb Agreement Errors in Third Person Singular Verb Forms by Spanish University Students: A Corpus-Based Study

A Light Rule-based Approach to English Subject-Verb Agreement Errors on the Third Person Singular Forms

Verb errors are one of the most common grammar errors made by non-native writers of English. This work especially focus on an important type of verb usage errors, subject-verb agreement for the third person singular forms, which has a high proportion in errors made by non-native English learners. Existing work has not given a satisfied solution for this task, in which those using supervised lea...

Revealing Early Comprehension of Subject-Verb Agreement in Spanish

Previous research has revealed that, in at least some languages, children’s comprehension of subject-verb (SV) agreement is delayed compared to production. For example, children acquiring Spanish and English have not been found to show comprehension of number agreement in the 3 person until surprisingly late, around age 5 (Spanish: PérezLeroux, 2005; English: Johnson, de Villiers, & Seymour, 20...

esp needs analysis of iranian ma students: a case study of university of isfahan

نیاز سنجی دانشجویان کارشناسی ارشد ایرانی در رابطه با زبان تخصصی: مطالعه ای در دانشگاه اصفهان هدف از این مطالعه بررسی نیازهای یادگیری زبان خارجی دانشجویان کارشناسی ارشد دانشجویان دانشگاه اصفهان در رشته های زیست شناسی، روانشناسی، تربیت بدنی، حسابداری و فلسفه ی غرب میباشد. در مجموع 80 دانشجودر پنج رشته ی متفاوت از دانشگاه اصفهان در این پژوهش شرکت داشتند.علاوه بر این هشتاد دانشجو،25 استاد دروس ت...

The emergence of creole subject-verb agreement

Electrophysiology of subject-verb agreement mediated by speakers’ gender

An important property of speech is that it explicitly conveys features of a speaker's identity such as age or gender. This event-related potential (ERP) study examined the effects of social information provided by a speaker's gender, i.e., the conceptual representation of gender, on subject-verb agreement. Despite numerous studies on agreement, little is known about syntactic computations gener...