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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Feb 29.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Aging. 2007 Mar;22(1):84–93. doi: 10.1037/0882-7974.22.1.84

Table 2.

Critical Regions for Cleft and Relative Clause Sentences.

Sentence type Sentence example
Cleft subject It was the doctor / that knew the banker.
  Critical Region / relative clause /
Cleft object It was the banker / that the doctor knew.
  Critical Region / relative clause /
Subject Relative The farmer / that knew the banker / asked / for a loan .
  Critical Regions / relative clause / main verb /
Object Relative The farmer / that the banker knew / asked / for a loan.
  Critical Regions / relative clause / main verb /