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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 May 14.
Published in final edited form as: Cogn Psychol. 2015 Mar 16;78:1–27. doi: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2015.02.002

Table 2.

Average conditional probabilities for the six conditions, in Wikipedia and in the COCA Corpus.

Co-occurrence probability condition Verb phrase aspect
Wikipedia COCA
Past progressive Past perfect Past progressive Past perfect
High 0.0041 0.0036 0.0012 0.0018
Low 0.0002 0.0001 0.0006 0.0004
Unrelated 0.0001 0.0001 0.0001 0.0002