subject-verb agreement
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agreement
noun
uk/əˈɡriː.mənt/us/əˈɡriː.mənt/
the situation in which people have the same opinion, or in which they approve of or ...
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Finally, three structures, regular and irregular past tense and third person singularsubject-verbagreement, did not show adult mastery even by the oldest child group.
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They also observed that, at this stage, the learners had not yet produced modals, auxiliaries,subject-verbagreement, or tense marking.
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This makes sense sincesubject-verbagreementis maximally informative in the third person.
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Second, they provide new evidence for the generative inquiry into issues relating tosubject-verbagreement.
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In summary, the present study should help determine language-specific influences onsubject-verbagreementand word order cues in bilingual language processing.
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His network was able to mastersubject-verbagreementwhen data were presented incrementally but not when they were presented all at once.
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The main effect of word order accounted for 57% of the experimental variance, whereassubject-verbagreementaccounted for only 12%.
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In terms of agreement cues, bilinguals show an awareness ofsubject-verbagreementby age 8 and this effect increases steadily to age 11.
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However, this effect decreases and interacts withsubject-verbagreementcues as children get older.
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It was abstracted from (i) the position of the in-ected verb, (ii) subject drop and (iii) the lack ofsubject-verbagreement.
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In doing so, we see that the account of first and second person singularsubject-verbagreementput forward earlier is more than descriptively adequate.
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It might be argued that such a low error rate is consistent with the idea thatsubject-verbagreementis productive in young children's speech.
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Thirty-six sentences ofsubject-verbagreementsentences and 36 subcategorization sentences were used.
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A finite clause typically has an indication of tense and ofsubject-verbagreement.
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A few general findings emerge from the literature onsubject-verbagreementwith be.
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