Processing of singular agreement controller in Turkish
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2021/12/0043/000516Keywords:
comitative construction, sentence processing, TurkishAbstract
The present study investigates whether the properties of the singular agreement controller in Turkish comitative constructions ease the processing of the comitative construction and whether the singular agreement controller checks the agreement type on the verb (singular vs. plural). Data collected from 134 native Turkish speakers indicated that only one of the singular agreement controllers, the second person sen (‘you’), was processed more slowly than the others, and there was no significant main effect of agreement type (plural vs. singular).
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