Table 1.

Words from the English version of the Oldenburg International Matrix corpus, which was used in the SPIN task

Name	Verb	Number	Adjective	Noun
Alan	Got	Three	Large	Desks
Doris	Sees	Nine	Small	Chairs
Kathy	Brought	Seven	Old	Tables
Lucy	Gives	Eight	Dark	Toys
Nina	Sold	Four	Heavy	Spoons
Peter	Prefers	Nineteen	Green	Windows
Rachel	Has	Two	Cheap	Sofas
Steven	Kept	Fifteen	Pretty	Rings
Thomas	Ordered	Twelve	Red	Flowers
William	Wants	Sixty	White	Houses

Notes: Sentences were constructed by selecting one word from each of the five columns with equal probability, ensuring that transition probabilities between words were equated across sentences. Sentences were recorded in their entirety rather than as individual words.