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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Mem Lang. 2009 Nov;61(4):538–555. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2009.08.003

Table 2.

Mean values (with standard deviations in parentheses) of sentential features of congruent sentences ending with the two word types (NV-homographs and unambiguous words) in Experiment 1.

NV-homographs Unambiguous words
‘the duck’/‘to duck’ ‘the logic’/‘to vary’
Sentence Length 14.6
(3.6)
13.9
(3.1)
Plausibility
(1=least plausible; 7=most plausible)
6.5
(0.5)
6.6
(0.3)
Cloze probability 50%
(35%)
50%
(32%)