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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cognition. 2006 Sep 12;104(3):495–534. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.07.013

Table 8.

Reading times for critical regions of relative clause sentences in Experiment 3

Match type Match
 Non-match
Sentence type Desc–Desc Name–Name Desc–Name Name–Desc
Gaze duration
 Adverb  563  554  564  568
 Embedded verb  261  258  254  258
 Object  220  222  226  236
 Matrix verb  209  211  209  217
Right-bounded reading
 Adverb  754  728  742  754
 Embedded verb  278  270  270  271
 Object  238  250  247  267
 Matrix verb  372  348  363  362
Regression-path duration
 Embedded verb  317  378  346  446
 Object  314  308  365  318
Rereading
 Adverb  247  362  310  290
 Critical region (NP1 + NP2) 1518 1252 1276 1218
 Adverb  623  552  590  570
 Embedded verb  287  247  268  271
 Object  274  245  258  259
 Matrix verb  132  122  136  127
Time on critical region after regression from verbs
1220 1045 1015 1015