STATISTICAL ASPECTS OF PRODUCING GRAMMATICAL AGREEMENT: A CORPUS-BASED STUDY OF SPEECH ERRORS

STATISTICAL ASPECTS OF PRODUCING GRAMMATICAL AGREEMENT: A CORPUS-BASED STUDY OF SPEECH ERRORS

Author:  S.I. Gorokhova

Affiliation:  Saint Petersburg State University

Abstract: 
A corpus-based analysis of speech errors reveals that speakers tend to use higher frequency modifier-head constructions as default schemas that may have a priority over the algorithmic rules of computing agreement.

Keywords:  speech errors, grammatical agreement, case form, frequency