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Direct linkChristianson, Kiel; Luke, Steven G.; Ferreira, Fernanda – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
We report a replication and extension of Ferreira (2003), in which it was observed that native adult English speakers misinterpret passive sentences that relate implausible but not impossible semantic relationships (e.g., "The angler was caught by the fish") significantly more often than they do plausible passives or plausible or implausible…
Descriptors: Adults, Native Speakers, English, Semantics
