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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neuropsychologia. 2014 Jun 20;61:150–162. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.06.016

Table 3.

Experiment 2 sample stimuli and characteristics

Example stimulus: For the snowman’s eyes the kids used two pieces of coal.
For his nose they used a…from the fridge.
Lexical characteristics of critical nouns, condition means and (standard deviations)
Experimental Condition Example continuation Cloze probability KF written frequency Word length Orthographic neighborhood size Yes/no comprehension question
Expected (EXP) …carrot… .90 (.09) 55.83 (75.65) 6.31 (2.21) 2.91 (4.82) Did the children use a tomato for the snowman’s nose?
Unexpected Somewhat Plausible (USP) …banana… <.01 (.01) 58.06 (80.31) 6.48 (2.10) 2.85 (4.65)
Anomalous (ANOM) …groan… <.01 (<.01) 41.68 (71.76) 6.27 (1.97) 2.56 (4.30)