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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Aug 22.
Published in final edited form as: J Semant. 2007 Oct 9;25(1):1–44. doi: 10.1093/jos/ffm018

Table 2.

Results of Experiment 1 by analysis

Condition Subject ante Object ante n
The subject preference
 All pronouns 0.52 0.48 512
The qualified subject preference
 Non-biasing context (Parallel coherence) 0.54 0.46 256
The parallel structure preference
 Subject pronouns 0.51 0.49 256
 Object pronouns 0.52 0.48 256
The qualified parallel structure preference
 Subject pronouns (fully parallel structure) 0.52 0.48 128
 Object pronouns (fully parallel structure) 0.50 0.50 128
The coherence hypothesis
 Subject pronouns (Parallel coherence) 0.98 0.02 128
 Subject pronouns (Result coherence) 0.05 0.95 128
 Object pronouns (Parallel coherence) 0.10 0.90 128
 Object pronouns (Result coherence) 0.94 0.06 128