Subject-Verb Agreement in German: Evidence from Production and Comprehension Experiments

In many languages the subject and verb of a sentence agree in number. The grammatical rule of subject-verb number agreement is rather basic and straightforward, so that most children at the age of 4 years master it quite well (Keeney & Wolfe, 1972).

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