VERBAGRENCODING

Verb agreement encoding during language production and comprehension

 Coordinatore UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAIS VASCO/ EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA 

 Organization address address: BARRIO SARRIENA S N
city: LEIOA
postcode: 48940

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Ione
Cognome: Isasa
Email: send email
Telefono: +34 946012895
Fax: +34 946013550

 Nazionalità Coordinatore Spain [ES]
 Totale costo 45˙000 €
 EC contributo 45˙000 €
 Programma FP7-PEOPLE
Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
 Code Call FP7-PEOPLE-2010-RG
 Funding Scheme MC-ERG
 Anno di inizio 2010
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2010-10-01   -   2013-09-30

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAIS VASCO/ EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA

 Organization address address: BARRIO SARRIENA S N
city: LEIOA
postcode: 48940

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Ione
Cognome: Isasa
Email: send email
Telefono: +34 946012895
Fax: +34 946013550

ES (LEIOA) coordinator 45˙000.00

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agrees    encoding    object    attraction    cross    language    spanish    basque    arguments    verb    subject    comprehension    linguistic    native    relations   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'This project aims to make a broad characterization of agreement encoding processes, both during language production and comprehension, by proposing a cross-linguistic research project. We aim to characterize verb agreement encoding with its arguments by means of the number attraction phenomenon. Most psycholinguistic research has only considered subject-verb agreement, mainly because it is the only form of verb agreement that exists in the languages that have been studied (e.g., English, Dutch, French, Italian). However, we will further explore number agreement processes of the verb and its other arguments (e.g., subject, object and indirect object) both in Basque and Spanish. In Basque the verb agrees with the verb with its three arguments. In Spanish, the verb only agrees with the subject. However, it has also been suggested that object-clitic agreement is a kind of object-verb agreement (e.g. Franco, 1993). These issues will be explored by means of behavioural agreement error elicitation tasks in production, and event-related brain potentials (ERPs) in comprehension. Our working hypothesis is that similar general processing mechanisms underlie different agreement relations between the verb and its different arguments. We expect to find signs of different sensitivity to attraction effects between different agreement relations (e.g., larger/shorter attraction effects in production; differences in the amplitude, distribution and/or latencies of the ERP components). This would suggest that the strength of these relations during on-line production and comprehension processes may be different (e.g., subject agreement relations being more robust and less prone to attraction effects than object/dative agreement relations).'

Introduzione (Teaser)

European researchers joined forces to arrive at a cross-linguistic characterisation of agreement encoding processes during language production and comprehension. Their work considered both native and non-native speakers.

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