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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 14.
Published in final edited form as: Aphasiology. 2012 Jul 3;26(10):1250–1277. doi: 10.1080/02687038.2012.693584
Trial no. Sentence type Prime sentence Target sentence
  1 A The boy is pulling the girl. The girl is pulling the boy.
  2 A The dog is chasing the cat. The cat is chasing the dog.
  3 A The man is saving the woman. The woman is saving the man.
  4 A The dog is watching the cat. The cat is watching the dog.
  5 A The woman is kissing the man. The man is kissing the woman.
  6 P The cat is chased by the dog. The dog is chased by the cat.
  7 P The girl is pulled by the boy. The boy is pulled by the girl.
  8 P The man is kissed by the woman. The woman is kissed by the man.
  9 P The cat is watched by the dog. The dog is watched by the cat.
10 P The woman is saved by the man. The man is saved by the woman.
11 SWQ Who is kissing the man? Who is kissing the woman?
12 SWQ Who is chasing the cat? Who is chasing the dog?
13 SWQ Who is saving the woman? Who is saving the man?
14 SWQ Who is pulling the girl? Who is pulling the boy?
15 SWQ Who is watching the cat? Who is watching the dog?
16 OWQ Who is the woman kissing? Who is the man kissing?
17 OWQ Who is the dog watching? Who is the cat watching?
18 OWQ Who is the man saving? Who is the woman saving?
19 OWQ Who is the dog chasing? Who is the cat chasing?
20 OWQ Who is the boy pulling? Who is the girl pulling?
21 SR Pete saw the man who is saving the woman. Pete saw the woman who is saving the man.
22 SR Pete saw the dog who is watching the cat. Pete saw the cat who is watching the dog.
23 SR Pete saw the boy who is pulling the girl. Pete saw the girl who is pulling the boy.
24 SR Pete saw the woman who is kissing the man. Pete saw the man who is kissing the woman.
25 SR Pete saw the dog who is chasing the cat. Pete saw the cat who is chasing the dog.
26 OR Pete saw the girl who the boy is pulling. Pete saw the boy who the girl is pulling.
27 OR Pete saw the woman who the man is saving. Pete saw the man who the woman is saving.
28 OR Pete saw the cat who the dog is watching. Pete saw the dog who the cat is watching.
29 OR Pete saw the cat who the dog is chasing. Pete saw the dog who the cat is chasing.
30 OR Pete saw the man who the woman is kissing. Pete saw the woman who the man is kissing.

A = active; P = passive; SWQ = subject extracted wh-question; OWQ = object extracted wh-question; SR = subject relative clause; OR = object relative clause.