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CHAPTER 4. PSYCHOLINGUISTIC EXPERIMENTS 145<br />

Keyword Example<br />

accompany He saw her home.<br />

condition She saw him happy atlast.<br />

consult You should see the doctor.<br />

determine I'll see if I can open the jar.<br />

ensure I'll see to it that he's on time.<br />

envision I just can't see living in Podunk all my life.<br />

experience The freighter saw use as a troop carrier in the war.<br />

eye She saw him through the window of the train.<br />

faculty She doesn't see as well as she used to.<br />

hallucinate He saw stars for a few minutes after hitting his head.<br />

process He saw her dancing with the football hero.<br />

recognize She saw thathewas working too much.<br />

setting The 1960s saw a construction boom in Japan.<br />

visit Ihaven't seen my sister since Christmas.<br />

Materials<br />

Table 4.2: Names of Senses used in Experiments 2 <strong>and</strong> 3<br />

The seven senses chosen for this experiment were: eye, faculty, recognize,<br />

determine, ensure, experience, <strong>and</strong>setting.<br />

Example sentences were constructed for each of the seven senses, systematically<br />

varying other factors such as tense <strong>and</strong> aspect, question vs. statement, negation, voice, <strong>and</strong><br />

domain of discourse. (The three broad domains of discourse were \academic", \personal",<br />

<strong>and</strong> \entertainment".) In practice not all combinations of these factors produced reasonable<br />

sentences, but as many as possible were created. Appendix D contains the entire set of<br />

stimuli used in Experiments 2 <strong>and</strong> 3.<br />

Task 1: Sorting<br />

The instructions were the same as those in Experiment 1, except that subjects<br />

were also asked to choose the sentence which best exempli ed each sense <strong>and</strong> to place it on<br />

the top of the pile at the end of the hour.<br />

Task 2: Classi cation<br />

The method was the same as that used in Experiment 1, except that a thoroughly<br />

r<strong>and</strong>omized order of presentation was used both for stimuli <strong>and</strong> for the list of senses, to

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