Dan Parker is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Sentence Processing Lab at The Ohio State University. His research combines experimental, computational, and formal methods to study how humans process language. He has published in the top psycholinguistics journals and regularly engages in outreach to promote language science.

• 1. Introduction. 2. A brief survey of linguistic illusions; 3. The case of agreement attraction; 4. Leading accounts of attraction; 5. Theory arbitration: capturing the key effects; 6. The grammatical asymmetry revisited; 7. A puzzle for both accounts; 8. Taking stock: where do we go next?; Glossary; References; Index.

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Dan Parker is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Sentence Processing Lab at The Ohio State University. His research combines experimental, computational, and formal methods to study how humans process language. He has published in the top psycholinguistics journals and regularly engages in outreach to promote language science.

• 1. Introduction. 2. A brief survey of linguistic illusions; 3. The case of agreement attraction; 4. Leading accounts of attraction; 5. Theory arbitration: capturing the key effects; 6. The grammatical asymmetry revisited; 7. A puzzle for both accounts; 8. Taking stock: where do we go next?; Glossary; References; Index.

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Dan Parker is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Sentence Processing Lab at The Ohio State University. His research combines experimental, computational, and formal methods to study how humans process language. He has published in the top psycholinguistics journals and regularly engages in outreach to promote language science.

• 1. Introduction. 2. A brief survey of linguistic illusions; 3. The case of agreement attraction; 4. Leading accounts of attraction; 5. Theory arbitration: capturing the key effects; 6. The grammatical asymmetry revisited; 7. A puzzle for both accounts; 8. Taking stock: where do we go next?; Glossary; References; Index.

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