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Completion responses were collected for two sets of sentence contexts, which were designed to produce different distributions of probabilities for the primary responses. The subject population consisted of undergraduate college students. For each context, responses and their respective probability of occurrence are listed, and an index of the primary responses is provided. It is hoped that these normative materials will facilitate comparison among future studies of the effects of sentence contexts on word processing.
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Bloom, P.A., Fischler, I. Completion norms for 329 sentence contexts. Memory & Cognition 8, 631–642 (1980). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03213783
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