Straight from the horse’s mouth
Agreement attraction effects with Turkish possessors
Sol Lago | Potsdam Research Institute for Multilingualism
Martina Gračanin-Yuksek | Middle East Technical University
Duygu Fatma Şafak | Technische Universität Braunschweig
Orhan Demir | Middle East Technical University
Bilal Kırkıcı | Middle East Technical University
Claudia Felser | Potsdam Research Institute for Multilingualism
We investigated the comprehension of subject-verb agreement in Turkish-German bilinguals using two tasks. The first task elicited speeded judgments to verb number violations in sentences that contained plural genitive modifiers. We addressed whether these modifiers elicited attraction errors, which have supported the use of a memory retrieval mechanism in monolingual comprehension studies. The second task examined the comprehension of a language-specific constraint of Turkish against plural-marked verbs with overt plural subjects. Bilinguals showed a reduced application of this constraint, as compared to Turkish monolinguals. Critically, both groups showed similar rates of attraction, but the bilingual group accepted ungrammatical sentences more often. We propose that the similarity in attraction rates supports the use of the same retrieval mechanism, but that bilinguals have more problems than monolinguals in the mapping of morphological to abstract agreement features during speeded comprehension, which results in increased acceptability of ungrammatical sentences.
Keywords: agreement attraction, bilingualism, Turkish
Published online: 30 March 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.17019.lag
https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.17019.lag
References
References
Abrahantes, J. C. & Aerts, M.
Acuña-Fariña, J. C., Meseguer, E., & Carreiras, M.
Albirini, A., Benmamoun, E., & Chakrani, B.
Almeida, D., & Tucker, M.
Arslan, S., de Kok, D. & Bastiaanse, R.
Badecker, W., and Kuminiak, F.
Bamyacı, E.
Bamyacı, E., Häussler, J., Kabak, B.
Barr, D. J., Levy, R., Scheepers, C., & Tily, H.
Benmamoun, E., Montrul, S., & Polinsky, M.
Blanche, P. & Merino, B. J.
Bolonyai, A.
de Groot, C.
Dillon, B., Clifton, Jr., C., & Frazier, L.
Dillon, B., Mishler, A., Sloggett, S., & Phillips, C.
Drummond, A.
Eberhard, K. M., Cutting, J. C., & Bock, K.
Fenyvesi, A.
(2000) The affectedness of the verbal complex in American Hungarian. In A. Fenyvesi & K. Sándor (Eds.), Language contact and the verbal complex of Dutch and Hungarian. Working papers from the 1st Bilingual Language Use Theme Meeting of the Study Centre on Language Contact, November 11–13 1999, Szeged, Hungary, 94–107. Szeged: JGyTF Press.
Foote, R.
Franck, J., Vigliocco, G., & Nicol, J.
Gelman, A., Jakulin, A., Pittau, M. G. & Su, T. S.
Gibson, E., Piantadosi, S., & Fedorenko, K.
Göksel, A.
Hartsuiker, R. J., Antón-Méndez, I., & van Zee, M.
Häussler, J.
Jaeger, T. F.
Jäger, L., Engelmann, F., & Vasishth, S.
Kupisch, T. & Rothman, J.
Kuznetsova, A., Bruun Brockhoff, P., & Haubo Bojesen Christensen, R.
(2014) lmerTest: Tests for random and fixed effects for linear mixed effect models (lmer objects of lme4 package). R package version 2.0–11. http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=lmerTest.
Lago, S., Shalom, D., Sigman, M., Lau, E., & Phillips, C.
Lemhöfer, K., & Broersma, M.
Lorimor, H., Bock, J. K., Zalkind, E., Sheyman, A., & Beard, R.
Lorimor, H., Jackson, C. N., & Foote, R.
Marian, V., Blumenfeld, H., & Kaushanskaya, M.
Montrul, S., Bhatt, R. & Bhatia, A.
Nicol, J., & Antón-Méndez, I.
Nicol, J. L., Barss, A., & Barker, J. E.
Nicol, J. L., Forster, K. I., & Veres, C.
Nicol, J., & Wilson, R.
Pearlmutter, N. J., Garnsey, S. M., & Bock, K.
Phillips, C., & Ehrenhofer, L.
Polinsky, M.
Polinsky, M., & Kagan, O.
R Core Team
(2017) R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. URL http://www.R-project.org/.
Ristic, B., Molinaro, N., & Mancini, S.
Ross, S.
Rothman, J. & Treffers-Daller, J.
Schroeder, C.
Scontras, G., Fuchs, Z., & Polinsky, M.
Sezer, E.
Sherkina-Lieber, M.
Sherkina-Lieber, M., Perez-Leroux, A. T. & Johns, A.
Solomon, E. S., & Pearlmutter, N. J.
Sorace, A.
Sprouse, J.
Tanner, D., Grey, S., & van Hell, J.
Tanner, D., Nicol, J., & Brehm, L.
Tucker, M. A., Idrissi, A., & Almeida, D.
Wagers, M., Lau, E., & Phillips, C.
Cited by
Cited by 4 other publications
Hammerly, Christopher, Adrian Staub & Brian Dillon
Paspali, Anastasia & Theodoros Marinis
Reifegerste, Jana, Rebecca Jarvis & Claudia Felser
Rothman, Jason, Jorge González Alonso & Eloi Puig-Mayenco
This list is based on CrossRef data as of 08 february 2021. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.