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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 19.
Published in final edited form as: Brain Lang. 2014 Feb 19;129:58–64. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2013.12.003

Table 3.

Structure of Spatial Stories (Example in the Second Column).

A sentence introducing a protagonist Miss Julia lives in a typical English house
Two long sentences (4 lines), describing two scenarios placed in-out or up-down and each scenario associated with an object In the front, the house has a very well-kept garden with beautiful colored roses. In the living-room, there is a collection of clocks, which she inherited from her grandfather
The protagonist goes from one scenario to the other (one sentence) Miss Julia enters into the house, walking with her cane
A target sentence, in which the protagonist interacts with an object associated with that scenario (consistent condition), or with an object associated with the other (inconsistent condition). As usual, she contemplates her clocks with pride.
Consistent and inconsistent versions of the sentence have the same number of words, approximately the same (±2) number of syllables, and differ by 1 to 3 words. As usual, she contemplates her roses with pride.
Question Is the garden in front of the house?