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Procedure: Sentence blocks for recording


The experimental sentences were divided into three blocks for the purposes of the recording: Block A contains 112 sentences; Blocks B and C contain 136 sentences each. The composition of each block is shown in the table.

Division of experimental sentences in Experiment 2 for the purposes of recording
Block Composition Number of
sentences
A left-headed, utterance-medial, unaccented
right-headed, utterance-medial, unaccented
56
56
B left-headed, utterance-edge, unaccented
right-headed, utterance-edge, accented
right-headed, utterance-medial, accented
40
40
56
Cleft-headed, utterance-edge, accented
left-headed, utterance-medial, accented
right-headed, utterance-edge, unaccented
40
56
40

For each of the six subjects, two full sets of sentences from each block were prepared in separate random orders. For Block A, each randomised set was split into two groups of 56 sentences each, making four groups in all; for Blocks B and C, each set was split into three groups, two of 45 sentences and one of 46 sentences, making six groups in all for each block.



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