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Harrison, Annabel Jane. "Production of subject-verb agreement in Slovene and English." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5811.

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This thesis explores the mental representation of subject-verb agreement, and the factors that can affect the determination of agreement in language production. It reports nine experiments that used a task in which participants produced sentence completions for visually presented complex subjects such as “The greyhound which two lively rabbits were tempting”. Such completions typically agree with the head noun (greyhound) as in “A greyhound which two lively rabbits were tempting is jumping” but sometimes agree with the local noun (rabbits) as in “A greyhound which two lively rabbits were tempt

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RODRIGUES, ERICA DOS SANTOS. "PROCESSING OF SUBJECT-VERB NUMBER AGREEMENT IN SENTENCE PRODUCTION." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2006. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=9004@1.

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CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO<br>O processamento da concordância de número sujeito-verbo na produção de sentenças por falantes do dialeto culto do português brasileiro é investigado. A dissertação focaliza os chamados erros de atração e seu principal objetivo é identificar os fatores que interferem no processamento da concordância e prover uma explicação psicolingüística que seja compatível com pressupostos do Programa Minimalista da Lingüística Gerativa. Mais especificamente, busca-se examinar: i) as condições que favorecem os erros e as propriedades sint

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Law, Mei-han Crystal. "The acquisition of English subject-verb agreement by Cantonese speakers." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31627766.

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羅美嫻 and Mei-han Crystal Law. "The acquisition of English subject-verb agreement by Cantonese speakers." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31627766.

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Lindelöf, Mona. "Some Swedish students´learning of subject-verb agreement in English." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-27803.

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Persons with Swedish as their first language often find it hard to learn subject-verb agreement when studying English. In Swedish this grammatical difficulty does not exist and it is therefore hard to introduce to learners that have Swedish as their native language.This investigation is based on the texts of 28 ninth graders of whom four were interviewed. My interest was in finding out how the students reflect on their own written work with a focus on subject-verb agreement with a particular focus on the third person singular s.My study shows that the four interviewed students claim that they

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Nicol, Janet L., Andrew Barss, and Jason E. Barker. "Minimal Interference from Possessor Phrases in the Production of Subject-Verb Agreement." FRONTIERS MEDIA SA, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/615107.

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We explore the language production process by eliciting subject-verb agreement errors. Participants were asked to create complete sentences from sentence beginnings such as The elf's/elves' house with the tiny window/windows and The statue in the eirs/elves' gardens. These are subject noun phrases containing a head noun and controller of agreement (statue), and two nonheads, a "local noun" (window(s)/garden(s)), and a possessor noun (elf's/elves'). Past research has shown that a plural nonhead noun (an "attractor") within a subject noun phrase triggers the production of verb agreement errors,

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Beer, Jeffrey Thomas. "Acquisition of subject-verb agreement in pre-pubertal Cantonese students in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B50175257.

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Language is probably the greatest thing developed by mankind. Yet few have come to understand how it is acquired. I am one of them. I want to understand how it is acquired, and how students come to understand the important area of subject-verb agreement. The purpose of the research was to gain an understanding of local students whose mother tongue is Cantonese (L1), and what are the factors affecting their acquisition of subject-verb agreement in English. To a lesser degree, it is aimed at gaining an understanding of how language is acquired; to gain an understanding on how second language i

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Petersson, Helena. "Subject-Verb Agreement in ESL texts : A corpus-based study of Swedish ESL students' written production." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-37331.

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Méndez-Rivera, Nelson José. "Linguistic Outcomes of the Wayuunaiki-Spanish Language Contact Situation." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/40732.

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The study of Spanish in contact with Wayuunaiki has received limited attention in generative and variationist analyses. In particular, the possible influence of this indigenous language on some parts of the Spanish language has not been investigated or has been only briefly addressed. This dissertation aims to fill this existing gap by studying two morpho-syntactic variables: (i) the distribution of null and overt subjects (NOS) as portrayed by the Null Subject Parameter and overt subject personal pronoun (SPP) expression as traditionally researched in variationist studies, and (ii) the issue

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Safaie, Ebrahim. "Sensitivity to subject-verb agreement in second language sentence processing : evidence from L1 Persian speakers of L2 English." Thesis, University of Essex, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.701425.

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Whereas variability in Second Language (L2) learners' use of Subject-Verb (S-V) agreement is uncontroversial, there is little agreement as to the causes of this variability in both SLA and L2 processing research. Theories differ as to whether this variability is related to a syntactic deficit in the hierarchical feature checking system or to surface realization of inflectional morphology. The purpose of the study is to investigate whether the agreement checking system is impaired in L2 grammar, and what the sources of difficulty are, if this system is not impaired. To explore the above questio

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Dawson, Christina [Verfasser], and Hildegard L. C. [Akademischer Betreuer] Tristram. "Shared alternatives to subject-verb agreement: The 3rd singular verb and its uses in English and Brittonic = Gemeinsame Konkordanzalternativen: Das Verb in der 3. Person Singular und seine Verwendung im Englischen und Britannischen." Freiburg : Universität, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1123469431/34.

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Hedlund, Ann-Chatrine. "Do extramural activities in English have an impact on students’ ability to correctly apply the rule of subject verb agreement?" Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-32325.

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Swedish learners of English have problems in managing the subject-verb agreement rule (Källqvist and Petersson 2006, Estling Vannestål 2015). Studies show that extramural activities in English improve language acquisition and language production (Sundqvist 2009). The aim of the essay is to investigate whether extramural activities affect students’ ability to correctly apply the subject-verb agreement rule. A google questionnaire was handed out to 64 students in the course of English 5 in upper secondary school. The students were asked to answer questions about their extramural habits and to do

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Staaf, Kerstin. ""My ideal boyfriend have to love me no matter what." : A comprarative study of errors in English subject-verb agreement in Swedish students' writing in Spain and in Sweden." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-154967.

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The main purpose of this study is to increase the understanding of a third language’s possible effect on learners’ second language acquisition. There is research how a first language affects the acquisition of a second language and that research has shown that a first language does affect the learning of an additional language in different ways. Even though it is proven that languages do influence each other in learning processes there is very little previous research that studies if and how a third language can be affected by or affect a learner’s second language. To investigate possible dif

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Pedreira, Carlos Wilson de Jesus. "Abordagem Sociolinguística sobre o Ensino da Concordância de Número no Sintagma Verbal." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2017. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/9147.

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Pereira, Deize Crespim. "Concordância verbal na língua falada nas trilhas das bandeiras paulistas." Universidade de São Paulo, 2004. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8142/tde-27022013-120141/.

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Esta dissertação apresenta um estudo de natureza sincrônica e quantitativa da variação entre aplicação x não-aplicação da regra de concordância verbal de 3ª e 1ª pessoas do plural. Os dados são oriundos da variedade do português popular falada por pessoas idosas residentes na zona rural dos estados de São Paulo e Minas Gerais, na área correspondente às trilhas das bandeiras paulistas. A variação da concordância verbal de 3ª pessoa do plural constitui um fenômeno comum no português do Brasil e tem sido amplamente documentada pela literatura lingüística, a qual evidencia que formas como Eles fal

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Deevy, Patricia Lynn. "The comprehension of English subject-verb agreement." 1999. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9920593.

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The characterization of the relationship between morphological and syntactic properties of sentences is central to current linguistic theories, for example, suggesting that morphological features play a central role in determining verb movement and the occurrence of null and expletive subjects. Given such a theory of competence, many questions arise about the role of these features in performance, such as: Is there a primary role for morpho-syntactic feature information in parsing sentences? How is feature checking accomplished and at what stage of the parse? The thesis addresses these questio

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Staub, Adrian. "The computation of subject -verb number agreement: Response time studies." 2008. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3336928.

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Speakers frequently make subject-verb number agreement errors in the presence of a number-mismatching local noun (e.g., *The key to the rusty old cabinets are on the table). A series of two-choice response time (RT) experiments was used to test an account of these errors according to which a number attractor generally makes the speaker's representation of subject number less definitive, with errors arising probabilistically from a competitive decision process. As predicted by this account, the presence of a number attractor reliably slowed responding when the correct response was issued. Analy

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Mansouri, Fethi. "A discourse approach to the acquisition of Arabic subject-verb agreement by Australian learners." Master's thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/143910.

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Sahawneh, Meera. "Probes and pronouns: variation in agreement and clitic doubling in Arabic." 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/32163.

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This study develops a new approach to agreement variation in Standard Arabic (SA) and Rural Jordanian Arabic (RJA) based on the Probe-Goal framework of Chomsky (2000, 2001). The key patterns investigated are the variation in fullness of agreement in the SV and VS word orders, the relationship between agreement and clitic doubling, and the patterning of agreement with conjoined subjects. The thesis argues for a connection between agreement, clitic doubling, and word order. Full agreement on T (in person, number, and gender) causes the subject to move to [Spec, TP], deriving SV order. However, p

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Nndwamato, Ndivhudzanyi Michael. "An analysis of written concord errors among Grade 12 First Additional Language learners in Vhembe District of Limpopo Province, South Africa." Diss., 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11602/678.

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MA (ELT)<br>Department of Engliish<br>Learning English as a second language by the South African learners of English First Additional Language (FAL) causes many challenges, such as committing errors in concord as there are differences between the learners’ mother tongue and the target language. Even at Grade 12 level, which is the exit point to institutions of higher learning or to the workplace, learners still display some deficiencies in the mastery of the English concord. This happens despite the fact that, in many South African schools, English is used as a medium of instruction and

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