Table 1.

GJ Complex task: Example sentence in each category.

Grammatical control item	When	did	the	man	say	he	painted	a	door?
Missing Do	When	___	the	man	say	he	painted	a	door?
Ungrammatical Lex	When	did	the	man	say	he	paint__	a	door?
Ungrammatical Do + Lex	When	___	the	man	say	he	paint__	a	door?
Double Tense	When	did	the	man	said	he	painted	a	door?

Note. Underlines indicate sections of the sentence omitted or switched to past tense from the control sentence. All items come from the Rice Grammaticality Judgment Task–Complex Questions. The experimental task and individual items within the task are copyrighted and reprinted with permission. GJ = grammaticality judgment.