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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 15.
Published in final edited form as: Cognition. 1989 Jul;32(2):99–156. doi: 10.1016/0010-0277(89)90001-2

Table 2.

Example stimulus sentences for Experiment 4

NP1 version
PRONOUN - ANTECEDENT (BILL)
Bill lost a tennis match to John.
Accepting the defeat, he4 walked slowly toward the showers.4
NAME - ANTECEDENT (BILL)
Bill lost a tennis match to John.
Accepting the defeat, Bill4 walked slowly toward the showers.4
PRONOUN - NONANTECEDENT (JOHN)
Bill lost a tennis match to John.
Accepting the defeat, he4 walked slowly toward the showers.4
NAME - NONANTECEDENT (JOHN)
Bill lost a tennis match to John.
Accepting the defeat, Bill4 walked slowly toward the showers.4
NP2 version
ANTECEDENT - PRONOUN (JOHN)
Bill lost a tennis match to John.
Enjoying the victory, he4 walked slowly toward the showers.4
ANTECEDENT - NAME (JOHN)
Bill lost a tennis match to John.
Enjoying the victory, John4 walked slowly toward the showers.4
NONANTECEDENT - PRONOUN (BILL)
Bill lost a tennis match to John.
Enjoying the victory, he4 walked slowly toward the showers.4
NONANTECEDENT - NAME (BILL)
Bill lost a tennis match to John.
Enjoying the victory, John4 walked slowly toward the showers.4

Note: For each sentence, the probe name appears in parentheses, the antecedent appears in boldface, the anaphor is in italics, and the two test points are superscripted with the experiment’s number.