Table 1.
Sentence Type | Example |
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Active (A) | The girl followed the boy. |
Passive (P) | The girl was covered by the father. |
Three Noun Phrases (3NP) | The niece said that the woman touched the girl. |
Pronoun (PRO) | The daughter said that the woman held her. |
Reflexive (REF) | The uncle said that the boy covered himself. |
Cleft Subject (CS) | It was the boy who scratched the man. |
Cleft Object (CO) | It was the man who the boy scratched. |
Subject Object (SO) | The brother who the sister followed kissed the woman. |
Subject Subject (SS) | The boy who hugged the girl chased the woman. |
Subject Subject and Pronoun (SSPRO) |
The nephew who touched the man washed him. |
Subject Object and Pronoun (SOPRO) |
The woman who the girl held touched her. |
Subject Subject and Reflexive (SSREF) |
The uncle who held the boy covered himself. |
Subject Object and Reflexive (SOREF) |
The nephew who the man touched scratched himself. |
Experimental-Baseline contrasts used to examine effects of structures
Passive: P-A
Object Extraction: CO-CS, SO-SS, SOPRO-SSPRO, SOREF-SSREF
Pronouns: PRO-3NP, SSPRO-SS, SOPRO-SO
Reflexives: REF-3NP, SOREF-SO, SSREF-SS