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Production Units and Production Problems in Forming Long-Distance
Dependencies.
Abstract
To investigate the demands of implementing discontinuous dependencies in
language production, we examined the occurrence of verb-argeement errors
in sentences varying in the types and amounts of material separating
subjects from verbs. In three experiments, errors were more common when
agreement spanned single phrases than when it spanned single clauses.
Longer discontinuities promoted errors only after phrases. These results
imply that agreement is specified within clauses regardless of the
eventual order of the clausal constituents.
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