Syntactic flexibility and planning scope: the effect of verb bias on advance planning during sentence recall.

Front Psychol · 2014 · PMC4202777 · PMID 25368592

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RESULTS Error rates Speakers made more errors in reproducing sentences with weak bias verbs ( M = 0.36, SD = 0.48) than strong bias verbs ( M = 0.31, SD = 0.46), but the difference was only marginally significant (β = -0.25, SE = 0.13, z = -1.90, p = 0.06).

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