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agreement attraction: a standalone construct

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Psycholinguistics

errors where a verb agrees with a nearby noun rather than its true subject, as in 'the key to the cabinets are'.

In psycholinguistics, agreement attraction refers to errors where a verb agrees with a nearby noun rather than its true subject, as in 'the key to the cabinets are'. This meaning comes from Bock (1991) in Cognitive Psychology.[1]

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References

Bock, K., & Miller, C. A. (1991). Broken agreement. Cognitive Psychology, 23(1), 45-93. https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-0285(91)90003-7

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