Agreement processing

Joint work with Ellen Lau (UMD), Brian McElree (NYU), Colin Phillips (UMD) and Clare Stroud

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Agreement attraction in comprehension: selective fallibility, prediction and cue combinatorics

1. Agreement attraction in comprehension: representations and processes [ DOI | PDF ]

   Wagers, M., Lau, E., & Phillips, C. (2009). Agreement attraction in comprehension: representations and processes. Journal of Memory and Language, in press. 93pp.

   SUPPLEMENTAL: Simulating the Symmetry Prediction for Reading times

2. Further patterns of agreement attraction in comprehension [ PDF ]

   Wagers, M., Lau, E., & Phillips, C. (2008). Early and late effects of agreement attraction in comprehension. Poster given at the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, 21, March 13-15. Chapel Hill, NC: UNC.

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The interpretive consequences of agreement attraction

1. The consequences of number agreement on number interpretation [ PDF ]

   Lau, E., Wagers, M., & Phillips, C. (2009). The consequences of number agreement on number interpretation. Poster given at the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, 22, March 26-28. Davis, CA: UC Davis.

2. The consequences of number agreement on grammatical role assignment [ PDF ]

   Lau, E., Wagers, M., Stroud, C., & Phillips, C. (2008). Agreement and the subject of confusion. Talk given at the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, 21, March 13-15. Chapel Hill, NC: UNC.

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Encoding predictions

1. Evidence for predictive maintenance of grammatically marked features / Determiner-Noun Agreement in English [ PDF ]

   Wagers, M., Lau, E., Stroud, C., McElree, B & Phillips, C. (2009). Encoding syntactic predictions: evidence from the dynamics of agreement. Talk given at the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, 22, Davis, CA: UC Davis.

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