“Self-Paced Reading Experiment Reveals Reduced Attraction Effects in Intransitive Subject-Verb Number Agreement Compared to Transitive Subjects”

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38114715

In a self-paced reading experiment, transitive subjects in English were found to trigger attraction effects in subject-verb number agreement, but these effects were mitigated for intransitive subjects, indicating that transitive subjects are less distinctive and less salient in memory due to competition with direct objects for memory resources.