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. 2015 Aug 12;10(8):e0132819. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0132819

Table 1. Sample set of materials from the electrophysiological experiment on Hindi (with masculine gender A arguments; for feminine gender examples, see S1 Table).

Condition Examples Mean accuracy
AI kitāb beca-tā hai Gopāl 94 (5)
book(F)[NOM] sell-I.M AUX Gopal(M)[NOM]
‘Gopal sells a book.’
UI kitāb-ko beca-tā hai Gopāl 92 (7)
book(F)-ACC sell-I.M AUX Gopal(M)[NOM]
‘Gopal sells the book.’
AP kitāb bec-ī hai Gopāl-ne 95 (4)
book(F)[NOM] sell-P.F AUX Gopal(M)-ERG
‘Gopal has sold a book.’
UP kitāb-ko bec-ā hai Gopāl-ne 94 (6)
book(F)-ACC sell-P.M AUX Gopal(M)-ERG
‘Gopal has sold the book.’

Mean accuracy reports the accuracy for comprehension questions in %, with standard deviations by participants in brackets. Condition codes: A, ambiguous; U, unambiguous; I, imperfective aspect (not triggering ergative marking); P, perfective (triggering ergative marking). Glosses: AUX, auxiliary; ACC, accusative; ERG, ergative; F, feminine; M, masculine; NOM, nominative.