TY  - JOUR
A1  - Paape, Dario
A1  - Avetisyan, Serine
A1  - Lago, Sol
A1  - Vasishth, Shravan
T1  - Modeling misretrieval and feature substitution in agreement attraction
BT  - a computational evaluation
JF  - Cognitive science
N2  - We present computational modeling results based on a self-paced reading study investigating number attraction effects in Eastern Armenian. We implement three novel computational models of agreement attraction in a Bayesian framework and compare their predictive fit to the data using k-fold cross-validation. We find that our data are better accounted for by an encoding-based model of agreement attraction, compared to a retrieval-based model. A novel methodological contribution of our study is the use of comprehension questions with open-ended responses, so that both misinterpretation of the number feature of the subject phrase and misassignment of the thematic subject role of the verb can be investigated at the same time. We find evidence for both types of misinterpretation in our study, sometimes in the same trial. However, the specific error patterns in our data are not fully consistent with any previously proposed model.
KW  - Agreement attraction
KW  - Eastern Armenian
KW  - Self-paced reading
KW  - Computational modeling
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13019
SN  - 0364-0213
SN  - 1551-6709
VL  - 45
IS  - 8
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Malden, Mass.
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lago, Sol
A1  - Shalom, Diego E.
A1  - Sigman, Mariano
A1  - Lau, Ellen F.
A1  - Phillips, Colin
T1  - Agreement attraction in Spanish comprehension
JF  - Journal of memory and language
N2  - Previous studies have found that English speakers experience attraction effects when comprehending subject-verb agreement, showing eased processing of ungrammatical sentences that contain a syntactically unlicensed but number-matching noun. In four self-paced reading experiments we examine whether attraction effects also occur in Spanish, a language where agreement morphology is richer and functionally more significant. We find that despite having a richer morphology, Spanish speakers show reliable attraction effects in comprehension, and that these effects are strikingly similar to those previously found in English in their magnitude and distributional profile. Further, we use distributional analyses to argue that cue-based memory retrieval is used as an error-driven mechanism in comprehension. We suggest that cross-linguistic similarities in agreement attraction result from speakers deploying repair or error-driven mechanisms uniformly across languages. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
KW  - Agreement attraction
KW  - Number morphology
KW  - Spanish
KW  - Sentence comprehension
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2015.02.002
SN  - 0749-596X
SN  - 1096-0821
VL  - 82
SP  - 133
EP  - 149
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - San Diego
ER  -