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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Mem Lang. 2009 Apr 1;60(3):368–392. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2008.09.005

Table 7.

Correlations between verb properties and reading time measures at the disambiguating region in temporarily ambiguous sentences, across Experiments 1 and 2

Verb Properties
Clause-bias DO-bias That-preference
Expt.1 Reading Times Expt. 2 First-pass Times Expt. 2 Regress-path Times Expt.1 Reading Times Expt. 2 First-pass Times Expt. 2 Regress-path Times Expt.1 Reading Times Expt. 2 First-pass Times Expt. 2 Regress-path Times
Clause continuation −.25* −.13 −.32** .33** .24* .27* .39** .21 .38**
DO continuation .12 .14 .08 −.21! −.13 −.20! −.22! −.17! −.16
Difference (C - DO) −.28* −.19! −.27* .40** .27* .32** .46** .28* .37**
!

Note: = p < .1,

*

= p < .05,

**

= p < .01

Correlations above and below dashed line are reliably different from each other at p < .05