Table 1.

Examples of stimulus sets for the three types of sentence endings in the mini-scenarios.

Set	Context Sentence	Sentence Frame	Expected Word	Within-category violation	Between-category violation
1	Getting both himself and his car to work on the neighboring island was time-consuming.	Every morning he drove for a few minutes and then boarded the	ferry	gondola	plane
1	She felt that she couldn’t leave Venice without the experience.	It might be a touristy thing to do, but she wanted to ride in a	gondola	ferry	helicopter
1	Amy was very anxious about traveling abroad for the first time.	She felt surprisingly better, however, when she actually boarded the	plane	helicopter	gondola
1	The patient was in critical condition and the ambulance wouldn’t be fast enough.	They decided they would have to use the	helicopter	plane	ferry
2	I guess his girlfriend really encouraged him to get it pierced.	But his father sure blew up when he came home wearing that	earring	necklace	lipstick
2	She keeps twirling it around and around under her collar.	Stephanie seems really happy that Dan gave her that	necklace	earring	mascara
2	She wanted to make her eyelashes look really black and thick.	So she asked to borrow her older friend’s	mascara	lipstick	necklace
2	He complained that after she kissed him, he couldn’t get the red color off his face.	He finally just asked her to stop wearing that	lipstick	mascara	earring