Veenstra Alma, Antoniou Kyriakos, Katsos Napoleon, Kissine Mikhail
Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge.
Department of Languages and Letters, Université Libre de Bruxelles.
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 2018 Aug;44(8):1242-1253. doi: 10.1037/xlm0000516. Epub 2018 Apr 19.
We propose that attraction errors in agreement production (e.g., the key to the cabinets are missing) are related to two components of executive control: working memory and inhibitory control. We tested 138 children aged 10 to 12, an age when children are expected to produce high rates of errors. To increase the potential of individual variation in executive control skills, participants came from monolingual, bilingual, and bidialectal language backgrounds. Attraction errors were elicited with a picture description task in Dutch and executive control was measured with a digit span task, Corsi blocks task, switching task, and attentional networks task. Overall, higher rates of attraction errors were negatively associated with higher verbal working memory and, independently, with higher inhibitory control. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of the role of both working memory and inhibitory control in attraction errors in production. Implications for memory- and grammar-based models are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record
我们提出，一致性生成中的吸引错误（例如，橱柜的钥匙不见了）与执行控制的两个组成部分有关：工作记忆和抑制控制。我们测试了138名10至12岁的儿童，这个年龄段的儿童预计会出现较高的错误率。为了增加执行控制技能个体差异的可能性，参与者来自单语、双语和双方言语言背景。通过荷兰语图片描述任务引出吸引错误，并通过数字广度任务、科西方块任务、切换任务和注意网络任务测量执行控制。总体而言，较高的吸引错误率与较高的言语工作记忆呈负相关，并且独立地与较高的抑制控制呈负相关。据我们所知，这是工作记忆和抑制控制在生成中的吸引错误中所起作用的首次证明。讨论了对基于记忆和语法的模型的影响。（PsycINFO数据库记录）
