@ARTICLE{10.3389/fpsyg.2020.586464, AUTHOR={Tucker, Matthew A. and Idrissi, Ali and Almeida, Diogo}, TITLE={Attraction Effects for Verbal Gender and Number Are Similar but Not Identical: Self-Paced Reading Evidence From Modern Standard Arabic}, JOURNAL={Frontiers in Psychology}, VOLUME={11}, YEAR={2021}, URL={https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.586464}, DOI={10.3389/fpsyg.2020.586464}, ISSN={1664-1078}, ABSTRACT={Previous work on the comprehension of agreement has shown that incorrectly inflected verbs do not trigger responses typically seen with fully ungrammatical verbs when the preceding sentential context furnishes a possibly matching distractor noun (i.e., agreement attraction). We report eight studies, three being direct replications, designed to assess the degree of similarity of these errors in the comprehension of subject-verb agreement along the dimensions of grammatical gender and number in Modern Standard Arabic. A meta-analysis of the results demonstrate the presence of agreement attraction effects in reading comprehension for gender and number on verbs. Moreover, the meta-analysis demonstrates that these two features do not behave identically: gender effects are larger and occur later relative to number attraction effects. These results challenge models of agreement that predict agreement features to be equipotent and show that real-time models of agreement require modifications in the form of cue-weighting in order to account for these differential results.} }