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Controlling Number Agreement on Verbs and Anaphors.
Abstract
English speakers must track the number of the sentence subject to carry
out verb agreement and anaphor agreement. These different kinds of
agreement may call on different kinds of number information, either
conceptual or grammatical. To examine this, we varied the features
of spurious number controllers in production tasks that elicited
agreement errors on verbs and tag pronouns. The results suggested
that speakers are more likely to use conceptual number for anaphors than
for verbs.
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