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CHAPTER 4. PSYCHOLINGUISTIC EXPERIMENTS 154<br />

Materials<br />

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Figure 4.3: Experiment 3. Number of Categories used by each subject<br />

The seven new senses were visit, consult, process, condition, envision, hal-<br />

lucinate, <strong>and</strong> accompany. In order to keep the total set of stimuli small enough, only the<br />

5 clearest examples of the seven senses used in Experiment 2were retained in Experiment 3.<br />

As before, not all combinations of the manipulated factors with the senses produced good<br />

sentences.<br />

Procedure<br />

The procedure was identical to that used in Experiment 2.<br />

Results <strong>and</strong> Analysis<br />

Task 1: Sorting<br />

The number of categories created by each subject in the Sorting task is shown in<br />

Figure 4.3. The median number of categories is 10, which is signi cantly larger than the<br />

median of 6 on Experiment 2 (using the median test, 2 =26:09, p

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