Table 2.
The distribution of responses in Experiment 1.
| Correct responses | 1018 (71.2%) |
| Agreement errors | 61 (4.3%), 8 of them partiala |
| Repetition errors | 111 (7.8%) |
| Repetition and agreement errors | 9 (0.6%), 3 of them partial |
| Incomplete responses | 224 (15.7%) |
| Incomplete responses with agreement errors | 7 (0.5%) |
a
In most sentences with agreement errors, both the verb and the adjective or participle were in a wrong form. They are components of a complex predicate, so we counted this as one error (note that counting them as two errors instead would not affect the outcome, because the differences between the relevant conditions would only be inflated). However, in several cases only one of the two components did not agree with the subject.