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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 3.

Example stimulus sentences for Experiment 5

NP1 type sentence
OLD NAME - ANTECEDENT (BILL)
Bill handed John some tickets to a concert but Bill took the tickets back immediately.
NEW NAME - “ANTECEDENT” (BILL)
Bill handed John some tickets to a concert but Mark said the tickets were counterfeit.
OLD NAME - NONANTECEDENT (JOHN)
Bill handed John some tickets to a concert but Bill took the tickets back immediately.
NEW NAME - “NONANTECEDENT” (JOHN)
Bill handed John some tickets to a concert but Mark said the tickets were counterfeit.
NP2 type sentence
OLD NAME - ANTECEDENT (PAM)
Ann predicted that Pam would lose the track race but Pam came in first very easily.
NEW NAME - “ANTECEDENT” (PAM)
Ann predicted that Pam would lose the track race but Jan predicted that Pam would win.
OLD NAME - NONANTECEDENT (ANN)
Ann predicted that Pam would lose the track race but Pam came in first very easily.
NEW NAME - “NONANTECEDENT” (ANN)
Ann predicted that Pam would lose the track race but Jan predicted that Pam would win.

Note: For each sentence, the probe name appears in parentheses, and the “anaphor” is in italics.