Against Structural Constraints in Subject-Verb Agreement Production

作者：Gillespie, Maureen^*; Pearlmutter, Neal J

来源：Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition , 2013, 39(2): 515-528.

DOI：10.1037/a0029005

• clause-boundedness
• hierarchical feature-passing
• sentence production
• speech errors
• subject-verb agreement

Syntactic structure has been considered an integral component of agreement computation in language production. In agreement error studies, clause-boundedness (Bock & Cutting, 1992) and hierarchical feature-passing (Franck, Vigliocco, & Nicol, 2002) predict that local nouns within clausal modifiers should produce fewer errors than do those within phrasal modifiers due to structural differences; however, Gillespie and Pearlmutter (2011b) suggested structure might play a more limited role. Two studies examined whether the clause-boundedness effect would occur when prepositional phrase modifiers and relative clause modifiers were matched in properties likely to influence the timing of planning (Gillespie & Pearlmutter, 2011b; Solomon & Pearlmutter, 2004). In both studies, more errors occurred for plural local nouns, but the clause-boundedness effect was not observed. These findings suggest that agreement computation during production does not involve a hierarchical component.

• 出版日期2013-3
• 单位东北大学