TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lago Huvelle, Maria Sol
A1  - Gracanin-Yuksek, Martina
A1  - Safak, Duygu Fatma
A1  - Demir, Orhan
A1  - Kirkici, Bilal
A1  - Felser, Claudia
T1  - Straight from the horse’s mouth Agreement attraction effects with Turkish possessors
T2  - Linguistic approaches to bilingualism
N2  - We investigated the comprehension of subject-verb agreement in Turkish-German bilinguals using two tasks. The first task elicited speeded judgments to verb number violations in sentences that contained plural genitive modifiers. We addressed whether these modifiers elicited attraction errors, which have supported the use of a memory retrieval mechanism in monolingual comprehension studies. The second task examined the comprehension of a language-specific constraint of Turkish against plural-marked verbs with overt plural subjects. Bilinguals showed a reduced application of this constraint, as compared to Turkish monolinguals. Critically, both groups showed similar rates of attraction, but the bilingual group accepted ungrammatical sentences more often. We propose that the similarity in attraction rates supports the use of the same retrieval mechanism, but that bilinguals have more problems than monolinguals in the mapping of morphological to abstract agreement features during speeded comprehension, which results in increased acceptability of ungrammatical sentences.
KW  - agreement attraction
KW  - bilingualism
KW  - Turkish
Y1  - 2018
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/50708
SN  - 1879-9264
SN  - 1879-9272
VL  - 9
IS  - 3
SP  - 398
EP  - 426
PB  - John Benjamins Publishing Co.
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -