Research Article
Children’s and Adolescents’ Processing of Temporary Syntactic Ambiguity: An Eye Movement Study
Table 1
Means and standard deviations for length and frequency of key words.
| | | Length | KFWF | BVF |
| | Reflexive verbs | | | | | Ambiguous noun () | 3.71 (0.76) | 76.33 (72.29) | 13.80 (7.09) | | Disambiguating verb | 4.13 (1.36) | 312.67 (207.03) | 210.25 (357.27) | | Final noun | 4.00 (0.00) | 95.17 (60.96) | 10.33 (11.31) | | Optionally transitive | | | | | Ambiguous noun () | 3.87 (0.99) | 87.63 (89.82) | 14.43 (16.72) | | Disambiguating verb | 3.50 (0.76) | 215.63 (167.59) | 211.50 (356.39) | | Final noun | 4.57 (1.13) | 77.00 (40.56) | 8.43 (6.75) |
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Note. Length is number of letters, KFWF is Kucera-Francis written frequency, and BVF is Brown verbal frequency.
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