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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Child Lang. 2014 Apr 15;42(2):423–446. doi: 10.1017/S0305000914000075

TABLE 2.

Example stimuli from the present experiment. The critical pronoun is underlined

Condition Example story
First-mention Emily ate dinner with Hannah. She skipped her salad and only ate dessert. Can you point to her?
Repeated-mention (short) Emily and Hannah are going to Disneyland. Emily has never been to Disneyland. She is really excited about going to Disneyland. Can you point to her?
Repeated-mention (long) Emily and Hannah are going to Disneyland. Emily has never been to Disneyland. Disneyland has lots of fun activities. It also has great food. She is really excited about going to Disneyland. Can you point to her?
Gender (unambiguous) Emily played baseball with Michael. S/he hit five homeruns. Can you point to her?