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Hierarchical structure and memory mechanisms in agreement attraction by Franck, Julie, Wagers, Matthew

“…Speakers occasionally produce verbs that agree with an element that is not the subject, a so-called 'attractor'; likewise, comprehenders occasionally fail to…”
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Agreement attraction in comprehension: Representations and processes by Wagers, Matthew W., Lau, Ellen F., Phillips, Colin

“…Much work has demonstrated so-called attraction errors in the production of subject–verb agreement (e.g., ‘The key to the cabinets are on the table’, [Bock, J…”
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English Resumptive Pronouns Are More Common Where Gaps Are Less Acceptable by Morgan, Adam Milton, Wagers, Matthew W.

“…Ā-dependencies occur when an argument appears clause-peripherally, dislocated from its canonical base position, as in relative clauses. The displaced argument…”
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Going the distance: Memory and control processes in active dependency construction by Wagers, Matthew W., Phillips, Colin

“…Filler-gap dependencies make strong demands on working memory in language comprehension because they cannot always be immediately resolved. In a series of…”
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Developing incrementality in filler-gap dependency processing by Atkinson, Emily, Wagers, Matthew W., Lidz, Jeffrey, Phillips, Colin, Omaki, Akira

“…Much work has demonstrated that children are able to use bottom-up linguistic cues to incrementally interpret sentences, but there is little understanding of…”
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On the universality of intrusive resumption: Evidence from Chamorro and Palauan by Chung, Sandra, Wagers, Matthew W.

“…The literature on resumptive pronouns (RPs) has given rise to a rich taxonomy of the phenomenon. Despite the fact that RPs invariably have the morphosyntactic…”
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Extraction from English RCs and Cross-Linguistic Similarities in the Environments That Facilitate Extraction by Vincent, Jake W., Sichel, Ivy, Wagers , Matthew W.

“…In the first two decades following Ross’s Constraints on Variables in Syntax, a picture emerged in which the Mainland Scandinavian (MS) languages appeared to…”
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Grammatical licensing and relative clause parsing in a flexible word-order language by Wagers, Matthew W., Borja, Manuel F., Chung, Sandra

“…Evidence from two experiments reveals that in Chamorro, a verb-first language, the comprehension of relative clauses (RCs) is sensitive to the order of the RC…”
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The Predictive Value of Tagalog Voice Morphology in Filler-Gap Dependency Formation by Pizarro-Guevara, Jed Sam, Wagers, Matthew

“…Research has shown that when processing filler-gap dependencies, comprehenders do not wait until they encounter all of the bottom-up information in the input…”
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Functional Trade-Offs in White Matter Axonal Scaling by Wang, Samuel S.-H, Shultz, Jennifer R, Burish, Mark J, Harrison, Kimberly H, Hof, Patrick R, Towns, Lex C, Wagers, Matthew W, Wyatt, Krysta D

“…The brains of large mammals have lower rates of metabolism than those of small mammals, but the functional consequences of this scaling are not well…”
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Multiple dependencies and the role of the grammar in real-time comprehension by WAGERS, MATTHEW W., PHILLIPS, COLIN

“…Wh-dependencies are known to be formed rapidly in real-time comprehension. The parser posits the location of gap sites in advance of the bottom-up evidence for…”
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Ergativity and the complexity of extraction: a view from Mayan by Clemens, Lauren Eby, Coon, Jessica, Pedro, Pedro Mateo, Morgan, Adam Milton, Polinsky, Maria, Tandet, Gabrielle, Wagers, Matthew

“…Researchers using different methods have converged on the result that subject relative clauses are easier to process than object relative clauses…”
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Memory for linguistic features and the focus of attention: evidence from the dynamics of agreement inside DP by Wagers, Matthew, McElree, Brian

“…The amount of information that can be concurrently maintained in the focus of attention is strongly restricted. The goal of this study was to test whether this…”
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Subject encodings and retrieval interference by Arnett, Nathan, Wagers, Matthew

“…•The processing at an English verb is more difficult when its subject is complex, and contains other subjects.•This processing difficulty is more acute when…”
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A tale of two Tagalogs by Pizarro-Guevara, Jed Sam, Wagers, Matthew

“…A well-received generalization in Tagalog is that only the argument that is cross-referenced by voice is eligible for A-bar extraction. However, recent work…”
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Processing reflexive pronouns when they don’t announce themselves by Wagers, Matthew, Borja, Manuel F., Chung, Sandra

“…In two experiments we investigated the comprehension of pronoun forms in Chamorro, a verb-initial Austronesian language that does not distinguish…”
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A New Argument for Co-Active Parses During Language Comprehension by Dillon, Brian, Andrews, Caroline, Rotello, Caren M, Wagers, Matthew

“…One perennially important question for theories of sentence comprehension is whether the human sentence processing mechanism is parallel (i.e., it…”
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Editorial: Encoding and Navigating Linguistic Representations in Memory by Felser, Claudia, Phillips, Colin, Wagers, Matthew

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THE REAL-TIME COMPREHENSION OF WH-DEPENDENCIES IN A WH-AGREEMENT LANGUAGE by Wagers, Matthew, Borja, Manuel F., Chung, Sandra

“…In the verb-initial language Chamorro, an Austronesian language of the Mariana Islands, WH-dependencies exhibit a special verbal inflection known as…”
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The structure-sensitivity of memory access: evidence from Mandarin Chinese by Dillon, Brian, Chow, Wing-Yee, Wagers, Matthew, Guo, Taomei, Liu, Fengqin, Phillips, Colin

“…The present study examined the processing of the Mandarin Chinese long-distance reflexive ziji to evaluate the role that syntactic structure plays in the…”
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