Three experiments examined plausibility effects on the production and comprehension of subject–verb agreement. In a production task, participants were given a verb and sentence preamble and asked to create a complete passive sentence. The preambles contained two nouns (e.g., the album by the classical composers). The plausibility of the verb was manipulated so that either (a) both nouns could b...

We investigated the online sensitivity of the semantic integration system to the different roles played by sentence constituents that are necessary (verbs and nouns) or optional (adjectives) for argument completion. We compared the effect of semantic incongruities introduced in both types of words on the N400 ERP component. Participants read sentences for meaning, half of which were rendered an...

The ungrammatical sentence The key to the cabinets are on the table is known to lead to an illusion of grammaticality. As discussed in the meta-analysis by Jäger et al., 2017, faster reading times are observed at the verb are in the agreement-attraction sentence above compared to the equally ungrammatical sentence The key to the cabinet are on the table. One explanation for this facilitation ef...

In sentence comprehension, what are the cognitive constraints that determine number agreement computation? Two broad classes of theoretical proposals are: (i) Representation distortion accounts, which assume feature on subject noun gets overwritten probabilistically by a non-subject noun, leading to non-veridical memory trace noun; and (ii) The cue-based retrieval account, general account depen...

The investigation presented in this paper is a novel method in question answering (QA) that enables a QA system to gain performance through reuse of information in the answer to one question to answer another related question. Our analysis shows that a pair of question in a general open domain QA can have embedding relation through their mentions of noun phrase expressions. We present methods f...

The central issue of this study concerns the claim that the processing of gender agreement in on-line sentence comprehension is a syntactic rather than a conceptual/semantic process. This claim was tested for the grammatical gender agreement in Dutch between the definite article and the noun. Subjects read sentences in which the definite article and the noun had the same gender and sentences in...

Accounts of language production make different predictions about the conditions under which structural priming should be enhanced by lexical repetition (the boost). Repetition head verb strongly enhances a sentence, but studies English have found contradictory results regarding effects noun repetition. In two experiments, Mandarin participants read prime sentence aloud and then produced target ...

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Introduction: Sentence production impairments in aphasia often improve with treatment. However, little is known about how cognitive processes supporting sentence production, such as sentence planning, are impacted by treatment. Methods: The present study used eyetracking to examine changes in sentence production resulting from a 12-week language treatment program focused on passive sentences (T...