Resisting Attraction: Individual Differences in Executive Control Are Associated with Subject-Verb Agreement Errors in Production

• Published in: Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition Vol. 44; no. 8; pp. 1242 - 1253
• Main Authors: Veenstra, Alma, Antoniou, Kyriakos, Katsos, Napoleon, Kissine, Mikhail
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Psychological Association 01.08.2018
• Subjects: Attention; Bilingualism; Color; Correlation; Educational Attainment; Error Patterns; Executive Function; Foreign Countries; French; Grammar; Individual Differences; Indo European Languages; Inhibition; Intelligence Tests; Language Tests; Monolingualism; Parent Background; Pictorial Stimuli; Preadolescents; Questionnaires; Short Term Memory; Socioeconomic Status; Verbal Ability; Vocabulary; Belgium

We propose that attraction errors in agreement production (e.g., the key to the cabinets are missing) are related to two components of executive control: working memory and inhibitory control. We tested 138 children aged 10 to 12, an age when children are expected to produce high rates of errors. To...