@article{ArantzetaBastiaanseBurchertetal.2017,
  author    = {Arantzeta, Miren and Bastiaanse, Roelien and Burchert, Frank and Wieling, Martijn Benjamin and Martinez-Zabaleta, Maite and Laka, Itziar},
  title     = {Eye-tracking the effect of word order in sentence comprehension in aphasia},
  series = {Language, cognition and neuroscience},
  volume    = {32},
  journal   = {Language, cognition and neuroscience},
  number    = {10},
  publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group},
  address   = {Abingdon},
  issn      = {2327-3798},
  doi       = {10.1080/23273798.2017.1344715},
  pages     = {1320 -- 1343},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {Agrammatic speakers of languages with overt grammatical case show impaired use of the morphological cues to establish theta-role relations in sentences presented in non-canonical word orders. We analysed the effect of word order on the sentence comprehension of aphasic speakers of Basque, an ergative, free word order and head-final (SOV) language. Ergative languages such as Basque establish a one-to-one mapping of the thematic role and the case marker. We collected behavioural and gaze-fixation data while agrammatic speakers performed a picture-matching task with auditorily presented sentences with different word orders. We found that people with aphasia (PWA) had difficulties in assigning theta-roles in Theme-Agent order. This result is in line with processing accounts. Contrary to previous findings, our data do not suggest a systematic delay in the integration of morphological information in the PWA group, but strong reliance on the ergative case morphology and difficulties assigning thematic roles into the determiner phrases.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{AvetisyanLagoVasishth2020,
  author    = {Avetisyan, Serine and Lago, Sol and Vasishth, Shravan},
  title     = {Does case marking affect agreement attraction in comprehension?},
  series = {Journal of memory and language},
  volume    = {112},
  journal   = {Journal of memory and language},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  address   = {San Diego},
  issn      = {0749-596X},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.jml.2020.104087},
  pages     = {18},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {Previous studies have suggested that distinctive case marking on noun phrases reduces attraction effects in production, i.e., the tendency to produce a verb that agrees with a nonsubject noun. An important open question is whether attraction effects are modulated by case information in sentence comprehension. To address this question, we conducted three attraction experiments in Armenian, a language with a rich and productive case system. The experiments showed clear attraction effects, and they also revealed an overall role of case marking such that participants showed faster response and reading times when the nouns in the sentence had different case. However, we found little indication that distinctive case marking modulated attraction effects. We present a theoretical proposal of how case and number information may be used differentially during agreement licensing in comprehension. More generally, this work sheds light on the nature of the retrieval cues deployed when completing morphosyntactic dependencies.},
  language  = {en}
}