Examples of sentences used during initial training and the WORD and RULE conditions
| Grammatical sentences | Nongrammatical sentences | |
|---|---|---|
| (1) Initial training | 1 aaf plox glif rüfi aak böke gum | *1 aaf plox glif rüfi aaf böke gum |
| d N v m D M N | d N v m d M N | |
| (2) Word condition | 2 aaf gum glif rüfi aak böke plox | *2 aaf gum glif pel aak böke plox |
| d N v m D M N | d N v v D M N | |
| (3) Rule condition | 3 aaf plox glif rüfi aak gum böke | *3 aaf plox aak gum böke glif rüfi |
| d N v m D N M | d N D N M v m |
For notation of word categories, see Figure 1. The changes made are in bold for grammatical as well as for nongrammatical sentences. Violations that rendered sentences nongrammatical are in italics.
*1, Agreement violation between determiner and type of noun phrase; *2, word category repetition; *3, phrase structure violation; noun phrase (dN) should be followed by a verb phrase (v or vm) as in (1), but not by another noun phrase (DNM). Note that each type of violation occurred in every condition.