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Published in final edited form as: J Mem Lang. 2012 Sep 6;67(4):426–448. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2012.07.003

Table 3.

Percentage of participants’ ‘make sense’ and ‘does not make sense’ judgments for each experimental condition, and filler sentences, during the ERP experiment.

Sentence Type	‘Makes sense’ judgment	‘Does not make sense’ judgment
Control	89% (5.7)
Related Real-World Knowledge Violations		79% (11.4)
Unrelated Real-World Knowledge Violations		89% (7.8)
Related Animacy Selection Restriction Violations		93% (4.9)
Unrelated Animacy Selection Restriction Violations		97% (4.3)
Plausible Fillers	93% (5.2)

Mean percentages are shown with standard deviations in brackets.