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Sentence completion norms are a valuable resource for researchers interested in studying the effects of context on word recognition processes. Norms for 112 Spanish sentences were compiled with the use of experimental software accessed over the World-Wide Web. Several measures summarizing the distribution of responses for each sentence are reported, including Schwanenflugel’s (1986) multiple-production measure of sentence constraint strength, the type-token ratio, and the information-theoretic measure of redundancy. The complete set of completion norms is available at http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/ ~monica/spanish_completion_norms.html.
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McDonald, S.A., Tamariz, M. Completion norms for 112 Spanish sentences. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers 34, 128–137 (2002). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03195431
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