Only case-syncretic nouns attract : Czech and Slovak gender
agreement

J 2025

Only case-syncretic nouns attract : Czech and Slovak gender agreement

LACINA, Radim; Anna LAURINAVICHYUTE a Jan CHROMÝ

Základní údaje

Originální název

Only case-syncretic nouns attract : Czech and Slovak gender agreement

Autoři

LACINA, Radim ; Anna LAURINAVICHYUTE a Jan CHROMÝ

Vydání

Journal of Memory and Language, Elsevier, 2025, 0749-596X

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

60203 Linguistics

Stát vydavatele

Spojené státy

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 3.000 v roce 2024

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Ano

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

Gender agreement; Agreement attraction; Sentence processing; Czech; Slovak; Cue-based retrieval

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 17. 2. 2026 11:38, Mgr. et Mgr. Stanislav Hasil, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

Attraction effects in the comprehension of ungrammatical sentences have long been observed for number and gender agreement across many languages. These prolific findings have led researchers to claim that attraction effects are universal. However, recent evidence from Czech has shown that number agreement attraction is either non-existent in the language or negligible in size. We aimed to test whether this is also the case for gender agreement and to explore the role of case syncretism in the emergence of attraction effects. Crucially, we evaluated the predictions of the cue-based retrieval model in light of the resulting estimates. Across three self-paced reading experiments, two on Czech ( N1 = 172, N3 = 255) and the other on the closely related Slovak (N2 = 119), gender attraction in ungrammatical sentences was attested only with case-syncretic attractors. No differences between grammatical conditions were found. Based on computational modelling estimates, we argue that these empirical results contradict the predictions of the classic cue-based retrieval model but are compatible with the repair-by-retrieval account.

Citovat

LACINA, Radim; Anna LAURINAVICHYUTE a Jan CHROMÝ. Only case-syncretic nouns attract : Czech and Slovak gender agreement. Journal of Memory and Language. Elsevier, 2025, roč. 143, August 2025, s. 1-15. ISSN 0749-596X. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2025.104623.

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LACINA, Radim; Anna LAURINAVICHYUTE a Jan CHROMÝ. Only case-syncretic nouns attract : Czech and Slovak gender agreement. \textit{Journal of Memory and Language}. Elsevier, 2025, roč.~143, August 2025, s.~1-15. ISSN~0749-596X. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2025.104623.

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