Abstract Previous studies have suggested that distinctive case marking on noun phrases reduces attraction effects in production, i.e., the tendency to produce a verb that agrees with a nonsubject noun. An important open question is whether attraction effects are modulated by case information in sentence comprehension. To address this question, we conducted three attraction experiments in Armenian, a language with a rich and productive case system. The experiments showed clear attraction effects, and they also revealed an overall role of case marking such that participants showed faster response and reading times when the nouns in the sentence had different case. However, we found little indication that distinctive case marking modulated attraction effects. We present a theoretical proposal of how case and number information may be used differentially during agreement licensing in comprehension. More generally, this work sheds light on the nature of the retrieval cues deployed when completing morphosyntactic dependencies.

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案例标记会影响理解中的协议吸引力吗？

摘要 以往的研究表明，名词短语上独特的格标记会降低产生中的吸引力效应，即产生与非主语名词一致的动词的倾向。一个重要的悬而未决的问题是吸引力效应是否受句子理解中的案例信息的调节。为了解决这个问题，我们用亚美尼亚语进行了三个吸引力实验，亚美尼亚语是一种具有丰富而高效的案例系统的语言。实验显示出明显的吸引力效应，他们还揭示了案例标记的整体作用，当句子中的名词有不同的案例时，参与者表现出更快的反应和阅读时间。然而，我们发现很少有迹象表明独特的案例标记会调节吸引力效应。我们提出了一个关于如何在理解性协议许可期间不同地使用案例和数字信息的理论建议。更一般地说，这项工作阐明了在完成形态句法依赖性时部署的检索线索的性质。