Neural Language Models Capture Some, But Not All, Agreement Attraction Effects
Neural Language Models Capture Some, But Not All, Agreement Attraction Effects
The number of the subject in English must match the number of the corresponding verb (dog runs but dogs run). Yet in real-time language production and comprehension, speakers often mistakenly compute agreement between the verb and a grammatically irrelevant non-subject noun phrase instead. This phenomenon, referred to as agreement attraction, …