Natural Syntax of Belfast English (I) Subject-Verb Agreement, (II) Imperative

Dependency Grammar Based English Subject-Verb Agreement Evaluation

As a key factor in English grammar checking, subject-verb agreement evaluation plays an important part in assessing translated English texts. In this paper, we propose a hybrid method for subject-verb agreement evaluation on dependency grammars with the processing of phrase syntactic parsing and sentence simplification for subject-verb discovery. Experimental results on patent text show that we...

The emergence of creole subject-verb agreement

Is children’s comprehension of subject--verb agreement universally late? Comparative evidence from French, English, and Spanish

Previous research has suggested that comprehension of agreement morphology is surprisingly late (e.g. compared to production), prompting explanations attributing acquisition difficulty to various universal or language-particular features of agreement. In this paper we synthesize research from three languages---French, Spanish, and English---to argue that comprehension of subject--verb agreement...

Subject-verb agreement in Spanish and English: differences in the role of conceptual constraints.

This paper reports studies of subject-verb agreement errors with speakers of Spanish and English; we used a sentence completion task, first introduced by Bock and Miller (1991). In a series of four experiments, we assessed the role of semantic information carried by the sentential subject in the induction of subject-verb agreement errors. For Spanish speakers, a sentence preamble such as la eti...

Morphophonological influences on the construction of subject-verb agreement.

In three experiments, we investigated whether the production of subject-verb number agreement is affected by the phonological realization of grammatical information. Speakers repeated and completed German or Dutch noun phrases along the lines of The position against the demonstrations. We varied the number of the subject noun (position) and the local noun (demonstrations), as well as the number...