Interferences on subject-verb agreement production in spanish. A study of the role of semantic and morphophonological factors

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Published: Dec 13, 2013
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32348/1852.4206.v5.n3.5553
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sentence production, subject-verb agreement, semantic and morphophonological factors

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María Elina Sánchez
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Instituto de Lingüística
Yamila Sevilla
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Instituto de Lingüística
Virginia Jaichenco
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Instituto de Lingüística

Abstract

The goal of this study is to study the influence of semantic and morphophonological information in agreement computation during sentence production in Spanish. We designed an experiment using the error-elicitation paradigm in an oral sentence-completion task. Subject type (distributive vs. non-distributive), number of local noun (singular vs. plural) and local noun type according to the morphophonological realization (marked vs. invariant/unmarked) were manipulated. The results confirm the influence of semantic and morphological factors in the Spanish and, taken together with evidence from other languages, permit to assess the divergent hypotheses relating to the flow of information and the degree of autonomy of syntactic information in sentence production. In addition, they provide evidence regarding the role of the richness of inflectional morphology in the computation of subject-verb agreement.

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Sánchez, M. E., Sevilla, Y., & Jaichenco, V. (2013). Interferences on subject-verb agreement production in spanish. A study of the role of semantic and morphophonological factors. Argentinean Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 5(3), 15–23. https://doi.org/10.32348/1852.4206.v5.n3.5553
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Vol 5, No 3 (2013): REVISTA ARGENTINA DE CIENCIAS DEL COMPORTAMIENTO
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María Elina Sánchez, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Instituto de Lingüística

Docente de la cátedra de Neurolingüística, FFyL, UBA. Becario CONICET. Doctoranda de la FFyL, UBA

Yamila Sevilla, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Instituto de Lingüística

Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

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