Comparing number and gender agreement processing in Russian: an experimental study
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2022/13/0022/000564Keywords:
Russian, Language comprehension, Agreement attraction, Grammatical gender, Grammatical numberAbstract
We conducted a self-paced reading experiment comparing attraction effects in number and gender agreement in Russian. Only one previous comprehension study (Tucker et al., 2021) compared these features in Modern Standard Arabic and found distinct processing profiles. In Russian, larger reading-time delays were associated with gender errors compared to number errors, but attraction effects involving both features were similar.
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