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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 10.
Published in final edited form as: Cognition. 2011 Oct 27;122(1):10.1016/j.cognition.2011.07.012. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.07.012

Table 1.

Collocational and syntactic conditional probabilities of the relative clauses in Example (2). wi denotes the word introducing the RC (who in these cases); ci−1 denotes the syntactic part of speech of the previous word. Probabilities are relative-frequency estimates from the parsed Brown corpus.

P(wi|wi−1) P(wi|ci−1) P(RC|syntactic context)
(2a) 0.07 0.0044 0.00565
(2b) 0 0.0003 0.00008