Table 1.
Sentence conditions.
| Sentence condition | |
| Ambiguous (strongly-biased) | (e.g., The woman had to make the TOAST with a very old microphone) |
| Ambiguous (weakly-biased) | (e.g., The man was told that an ORGAN was not available for the choir) |
| Ambiguous (balanced) | (e.g., The teacher explained that the BARK was going to be very damp) |
| Unambiguous (control) | (e.g., The teacher explained that the steam was going to be very hot) |
In each example, the ambiguous word is capitalized and the disambiguating word is underlined.