Words with friends: effects of associative and semantic relationships on subject-verb agreement errors during sentence production.

• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2047/D20253646

The sentence production system transforms preverbal messages in the mind of a speaker into coherent grammatical utterances. During this process, which unfolds rapidly, the system has to link meaning information from the speakers message to appropriate lexical and grammatical information from the speakers memory. It usually does so with fluency and accuracy, but there are some predictable circumstances under which the system is prone to processing failures. Researchers have examined prototypical failures, including subject-verb agreement errors, to learn more about how the system coordinates the flow of information from the mind to the mouth of the speaker under routine conditions.