@inproceedings{bagartti-husain-2026-effect,
    title = "Effect of case markers during agreement production: A model comparison using {A}rmenian forced choice data",
    author = "Bagartti, Pranab  and
      Husain, Samar",
    editor = "Voigt, Rob  and
      Warstadt, Alex  and
      Feldman, Naomi  and
      Linzen, Tal",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2026",
    month = jul,
    year = "2026",
    address = "San Diego, CA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-workshops/2026.scil-main.33/",
    pages = "353--364",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-412-5",
    abstract = "Agreement attraction errors, where the verb erroneously agrees with a non-subject noun, have been a useful tool for investigating processes that subserve sentence production. Research has shown that case markers play an important role in modulating such errors. These effects have been argued to arise due to an underlying cue-based retrieval system. However, subsequent research in Armenian has challenged this conclusion (Avetisyan et al., 2020), arguing against a cue-based retrieval account. The current paper revisits the Armenian production data through computational modeling. Specifically, we implemented three distinct models and compared their predictions; we compare (a) a cue-based retrieval model, (b) a feature migration model, and (c) a case as markers for agreement prediction model. Our model comparison results show that a case as markers for agreement prediction model followed by an inference component explains the effect of case better than the cue-based retrieval model as well as the feature migration model."
}