'Programa de Pos Graduacao em Direito da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro'
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Abstract
Brazilian Portuguese exhibits variable patterns of nominal and verbal number morphological agreement: (i) redundant marking in the full DP and in verbal suffix; (ii) non-redundant agreement, with plural morphology in D. This paper focuses on adult processing of variable agreement in a psycholinguistic point of view; the topic is empirically investigated by means of a self-paced listening task. The results showed longer listening times in the non-standard agreement conditions and suggest that, even when the non-standard rule is well accepted, the absence of the repeated marks may be more cognitively demanding when compared with the standard agreement pattern.DOI: 10.17074/2238-975X.2015v11n1p118</p
