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Publication details [#31326]

Garrett, Merrill F., Brian Butterworth and Gabriella Vigliocco. 1996. Subject-verb agreement in Spanish and English: Differences in the role of conceptual constraints. Cognition 61 (1-2) : 261–298.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

agreement | conceptual representation | crosslinguistic perspective | subject | verb

Language as a subject

English | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0010-0277 0021-9924

Journal WWW

www.journals.elsevier.com/cognition

Annotation

This article discusses studies of Spanish and English subject-verb agreement errors. It is argued that languages differ in the extent to which the verb selection is monitored by features on the subject and features from the conceptual representation.