scholarly journals An investigation of the dependency of subject-verb agreement on inhibitory control processes in sentence production

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nazbanou Nozari ◽  
Akira Omaki

Agreement attraction, i.e., the production or acceptance of a verb that agrees with a noun other than the subject of the sentence, can be viewed as a process in which conflicting cues activate competing representations. The aftermath of such competition, in terms of cognitive processes, remains unclear. Using a novel referential communication task for eliciting agreement errors and both group-level manipulation of control demands and a detailed analysis of individual differences, we provide converging evidence for the role of monitoring and inhibitory control processes in agreement attraction for singular-subject sentences. We further demonstrate the dependence of producing plural verbs on such processes, suggesting the singular form is the prepotent default form. Collectively, these findings provide a clear demonstration for the role of monitoring and control processes in agreement computations, and more generally syntactic operations in sentence production.

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 585-592
Author(s):  
T. I. Fotina ◽  
H. A. Fotina ◽  
Zh. E. Klishchova ◽  
V. L. Arefiev ◽  
О. М. Chemych

Author(s):  
Aidan Duane ◽  
Patrick Finnegan

As the criticality of e-mail for electronic business activity increases, adhoc e-mail implementation, prolonged management neglect and user abuse of e-mail systems have generated negative effects. However, management’s ability to rectify problems with e-mail systems is hindered by our understanding of its organisational use. Research on e-mail systems is often dated and based on quantitative methodologies that cannot explain the interaction between various controls in organisational settings. Updating our understanding of the organisational aspects of e-mail systems utilizing qualitative methods is necessary. This chapter presents a multiple case study investigation of e-mail system monitoring and control. The study examines the interaction between key elements of e-mail control identified by previous researchers and considers the role of such controls at various implementation phases. The findings reveal eight major elements to be particularly important in monitoring and controlling e-mail systems within the organisations studied. These are: (1) form a cross-functional e-mail system management team; (2) implement and regularly update e-mail management software; (3) formulate a detailed and legally sound e-mail policy; (4) engage in structured e-mail system training; (5) create and maintain ongoing awareness of e-mail policy; (6) engage in a process of hybrid feedback and control-based e-mail monitoring; (7) firmly enforce discipline in accordance with the e-mail policy; and (8) conduct regular reviews and updates of the e-mail management programme.


1997 ◽  
Vol 273 (5) ◽  
pp. R1786-R1792 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel M. Kaplan ◽  
William H. Siemers ◽  
Ulrika Smedh ◽  
Gary J. Schwartz ◽  
Harvey J. Grill

The effect of gastric branch vagotomy (GVX) on the gastric emptying of glucose was evaluated during two phases of emptying control: as the stomach fills and in the postload period. GVX and control rats received a series of intragastric glucose infusions (1.0 ml/min) through indwelling gastric fistulas. In experiment 1, gastric samples were withdrawn either immediately after the offset of 9- or 18-min infusions of 12.5% glucose or at various times up to 36 min postinfusion. In experiment 2, samples were withdrawn either immediately or 30 min after termination of 12-min infusions of 12.5 or 25% glucose. After gastric fill, glucose solute emptying rate was stable over time, not influenced by concentration doubling, and, surprisingly, not affected by GVX. During gastric fill, solute emptying rate doubled with concentration in both GVX and control rats. For each concentration, however, glucose emptied during fill at almost twice the rate in GVX compared with control rats. This accelerated emptying of glucose during fill in GVX rats is consistent with a gastric vagal contribution to inhibitory mechanisms (e.g., receptive relaxation) that operate as the stomach fills under normal conditions. The absence of a GVX effect on emptying after fill suggests either that gastric branch vagal efferents play little role in feedback inhibitory control of glucose emptying under normal conditions or that other systems compensate for the function previously served by vagal gastric branch efferents. Further work is required to address the possible role of the gastric vagus in feedback control of gastric emptying when nutritive fluids other than glucose are delivered.


2011 ◽  
Vol 51 (7) ◽  
pp. 979-993 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. A. Parkhomov ◽  
N. L. Borodkova ◽  
A. V. Dmitriev ◽  
P. M. Klimov ◽  
R. A. Rakhmatulin

2007 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 433-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Whitebread ◽  
Sue Bingham ◽  
Valeska Grau ◽  
Deborah Pino Pasternak ◽  
Claire Sangster

The authors present findings from a large 2-year study exploring the development of self-regulatory and metacognitive abilities in young children (aged 3 to 5 years) in educational naturalistic settings in the United Kingdom (English Nursery and Reception classrooms). Three levels of analysis were conducted based on observational codings of categories of metacognitive and self-regulatory behaviors. These analyses supported the view that, within the 3- to 5-year age range, there was extensive evidence of metacognitive behaviors that occurred most frequently during learning activities that were initiated by the children, involved them in working in pairs or small groups, unsupervised by adults, and that involved extensive collaboration and talk (i.e., learning contexts that might be characterized as peer-assisted learning). Relative to working individually or in groups with adult support, children in this age range working in unsupervised small groups showed more evidence of metacognitive monitoring and control. Relative to children in supervised groups, they also showed more evidence of “other” and “shared” regulation. The implications for research, theory, and educational practice are discussed.


2014 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 184
Author(s):  
Adrian G. Fischer ◽  
Tanja Endrass ◽  
Martin Reuter ◽  
Christian Kubisch ◽  
Markus Ullsperger

2002 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyne Massin-Krauss ◽  
Elisabeth Bacon ◽  
Jean-Marie Danion

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