Number Agreement Attraction in Czech Comprehension: Negligible Facilitation Effects.

ABSTRACT: Number agreement attraction in comprehension has been extensively studied in various languages and it has been claimed that attraction effects are generally present across languages. In this paper, four experiments on Czech are presented, each examining a different structure. The Bayesian hierarchical models and Bayes factor analysis pointed towards no agreement attraction effects in three of the experiments. Only in one experiment an effect interpretable as signaling agreement attraction was observed. Its size, however, was so small that it did not translate into a clear preference for models with agreement attraction. The data from the four experiments were further compared to available data from several other languages (English, Armenian, Arabic, and Spanish). The emerging picture is th

SUBMITTER: Chromy J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10631795 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature