Subject-verb agreement in Spanish and English: Differences in the role of conceptual constraints
Subject-verb agreement in Spanish and English: Differences in the role of conceptual constraints
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DOI：
10.1016/s0010-0277(96)00713-5
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发表时间：
1996-12
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3.4
通讯作者：
G. Vigliocco;B. Butterworth;M. Garrett
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作者：
G. Vigliocco;B. Butterworth;M. Garrett
本文报道了对西班牙语和英语使用者的主谓一致错误的研究;我们使用了一个句子完成任务，首先由Bock和米勒（1991）介绍。在一系列的四个实验中，我们评估的作用，语义信息所携带的间接主语在诱导主谓一致错误。对于说西班牙语的人来说，一个句子的序言，如la etiqueta sobre las botellas（瓶子上的标签），通常被解释为表示几个标签，比通常表示单个实体的句子引起更多的一致性错误。这一发现重复了先前对意大利语的研究（Vigliocco等人，1995年）。另一方面，正如Bock和米勒（1991）发现的那样，英语使用者对语义维度不敏感。这种跨语言的差异是在Kempen和Hoenkamp（1987）提出的语法编码计算模型的修改版本的框架中讨论的。在这个版本的模型协议计算通过统一操作，而不是功能复制，允许一个独立的检索协议功能的概念表示的主题和动词。我们建议，语言的不同程度上的动词的选择是由主题的功能和功能的概念表征控制。
This paper reports studies of subject-verb agreement errors with speakers of Spanish and English; we used a sentence completion task, first introduced by Bock and Miller (1991). In a series of four experiments, we assessed the role of semantic information carried by the sentential subject in the induction of subject-verb agreement errors. For Spanish speakers, a sentence preamble such as la etiqueta sobre las botellas (the label on the bottles), which is usually interpreted to denote several labels, induced more agreement errors than preambles that normally denote a single entity. This finding replicates previous research with Italian (Vigliocco et al., 1995). English speakers, on the other hand, were not sensitive to this semantic dimension, as was found earlier by Bock and Miller (1991). This cross-linguistic difference is discussed in the framework of a modified version of the computational model of grammatical encoding proposed by Kempen and Hoenkamp (1987). In this version of the model agreement is computed through a unification operation instead of feature-copying, allowing for an independent retrieval of agreement features from the conceptual representation for the subject and the verb. We propose that languages differ in the extent to which the selection of the verb is controlled by features on the subject and features from the conceptual representation.