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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 2013 Nov 18;40(2):326–347. doi: 10.1037/a0034903

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Example visual display from Experiment 1. Participants heard predictive sentences like “The boy will eat the white cake.” Visual displays included a target (e.g., white cake), which was predicted by the joint contextual constraints from the verb and adjective, and a locally coherent competitor (e.g., white car), which fit the lexical constraints of the adjective, but was not predicted by the verb selectional restrictions of the sentence context.