Table 4.
Reading times for various measures in Experiment 2
| Match type | Match |
Non-match |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sentence type | Desc–Desc | Name–Name | Desc–Name | Name–Desc |
| Gaze duration | ||||
| Adverb | 324 | 315 | 328 | 334 |
| Critical region (NP1 + NP2) | 555 | 540 | 582 | 520 |
| Object | 223 | 212 | 220 | 217 |
| Embedded verb | 263 | 257 | 240 | 271 |
| Matrix verb | 248 | 234 | 229 | 229 |
| Right-bounded reading | ||||
| Critical region (NP1 + NP2) | 731 | 673 | 745 | 622 |
| Object | 289 | 252 | 269 | 277 |
| Embedded verb | 349 | 334 | 319 | 329 |
| Matrix verb | 393 | 358 | 328 | 344 |
| Regression-path duration | ||||
| Critical region (NP1 + NP2) | 805 | 703 | 789 | 656 |
| Object | 473 | 364 | 404 | 411 |
| Embedded verb | 654 | 571 | 606 | 629 |
| Rereading | ||||
| 237 | 210 | 219 | 210 | |
| Critical region (NP1 + NP2) | 1114 | 994 | 917 | 916 |
| Object | 355 | 282 | 260 | 302 |
| Embedded verb | 271 | 204 | 208 | 219 |
| Matrix verb | 136 | 110 | 85 | 100 |
| Time on critical region after regression from verbs | ||||
| 741 | 645 | 603 | 573 | |