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. 2016 Mar 10;7:345. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00345

Table 1.

Examples of the two sentence structures that were presented in the audio-visual picture-matching task.

Sentence structure Example
Word1 Word2 Word3 Word4 Word5 Word6 Word7 Word8
SVO I Den sure pingvin vil PTDfilme den søde koala
The angry penguin will film the sweet koala
SVO II Den søde koala vil PTDfilme den sure pingvin
The sweet koala will film the angry penguin.
OVS I Den sure pingvin vil PTDden søde koala filme
The smart penguin, the sweet hare will film
OVS II Den søde koala vil PTDden sure pingvin filme
The sweet koala, the angry penguin will film

All sentences contained eight words and have either a subject-verb-object (SVO) or an object-verb-subject sentence (OVS) structure. The onset of word five is defined as point of target disambiguation (PTD).