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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Mem Lang. 2013 May 11;69(3):299–323. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2013.04.002

Table 1.

Types of prime sentences used in Experiment 1

Target event: An alien drives a car into a cave
Type of overlap Prime sentence
Verb + Event Type The zebra on the motorcycle entered the garage.
Event-Type Only The man in the helicopter circled the tower.
No-Overlap The nurse with the freckles baked a pie.

All of these prime sentences were matched with the event pictured in Fig. 1. No-Overlap primes used the same syntactic frame as Verb + Event Type and Event-Type Only primes, but did not describe motion events.