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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 2014 Jul 7;41(2):526–540. doi: 10.1037/xlm0000042

Table 3.

Results of Experiment 2. Mean reading times are presented with standard errors in parentheses.

Measure (in milliseconds) Verb Target NP Postnoun region
  Cleft-Coercion began the memo about the new
  Cleft-Control wrote the memo about the new
  Pseudocleft-Coercion began (was) the memo about the new
  Pseudocleft-Control wrote (was) the memo about the new

Gaze duration
  Cleft-Coercion 245 (8) 314 (10) 422 (18)
  Cleft-Control 234 (7) 306 (9) 420 (14)
  Pseudocleft-Coercion 236 (7) 303 (11) 414 (16)
  Pseudocleft-Control 241 (7) 306 (11) 423 (14)
Regression-path duration
  Cleft-Coercion 298 (12) 391 (16) 626 (30)
  Cleft-Control 284 (9) 342 (12) 466 (19)
  Pseudocleft-Coercion 356 (16) 489 (26) 584 (23)
  Pseudocleft-Control 336 (17) 451 (19) 534 (20)
Second-pass duration
  Cleft-Coercion 218 (20) 220 (19) 164 (20)
  Cleft-Control 132 (14) 124 (14) 147 (16)
  Pseudocleft-Coercion 285 (21) 207 (19) 160 (19)
  Pseudocleft-Control 176 (12) 166 (18) 143 (15)
Total time
  Cleft-Coercion 484 (23) 569 (26) 676 (34)
  Cleft-Control 376 (17) 458 (23) 601 (23)
  Pseudocleft-Coercion 574 (26) 584 (30) 662 (32)
  Pseudocleft-Control 455 (18) 543 (26) 638 (26)

Note. NP = noun phrase.