A Self-Organizing Approach to Subject-Verb Number Agreement

Autor/inn/en	Smith, Garrett; Franck, Julie; Tabor, Whitney
Titel	A Self-Organizing Approach to Subject-Verb Number Agreement
Quelle	In: Cognitive Science, 42 (2018), S.1043-1074 (32 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0364-0213
DOI	10.1111/cogs.12591
Schlagwörter	Sentence Structure; Sentences; Grammar; Form Classes (Languages); Numbers; Nouns; Verbs; Morphology (Languages); Language Processing; Semantics; Models + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Satzbau; Satzstruktur; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Grammatik; Analytischer Sprachbau; Zahlenraum; Morphology; Morphologie; Sprachverarbeitung; Semantik; Analogiemodell
Abstract	We present a self-organizing approach to sentence processing that sheds new light on notional plurality effects in agreement attraction, using pseudopartitive subject noun phrases (e.g., "a bottle of pills"). We first show that notional plurality ratings (numerosity judgments for subject noun phrases) predict verb agreement choices in pseudopartitives, in line with the "Marking" component of the Marking and Morphing theory of agreement processing. However, no account to date has derived notional plurality values from independently needed principles of language processing. We argue on the basis of new experimental evidence and a dynamical systems model that the theoretical black box of notional plurality can be unpacked into objectively measurable semantic features. With these semantic features driving structure formation (and hence agreement choice), our model reproduces the human verb production patterns as a byproduct of normal processing. Finally, we discuss how the self-organizing approach might be extended to other agreement attraction phenomena. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01