A Self‐Organizing Approach to Subject–Verb Number Agreement

• Published in: Cognitive science Vol. 42; no. S4; pp. 1043 - 1074
• Main Authors: Smith, Garrett, Franck, Julie, Tabor, Whitney
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wiley-Blackwell 01.06.2018; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Agreement attraction; Dynamical systems modeling; Form Classes (Languages); Grammar; Language Processing; Marking and Morphing; Morphology (Languages); Notional plurality; Nouns; Numbers; Semantics; Sentence processing; Sentence Structure; Sentences; Verbs; Marking and Morphing; Sentence processing; Agreement attraction; Dynamical systems modeling; Notional plurality

We present a self‐organizing approach to sentence processing that sheds new light on notional plurality effects in agreement attraction, using pseudopartitive subject noun phrases (e.g., a bottle of pills). We first show that notional plurality ratings (numerosity judgments for subject noun phrases)...