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Completion norms for final words of sentences using a multiple production measure

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Sentence-completion norms for sentences using a multiple production measure are presented. A subset of these items were taken from the Bloom and Fischler (1980) sentence-completion norms in order to compare the Cloze measure with the present multiple production measure. For both measures, the sentence constraint correlated negatively with the number of responses generated across subjects. Although the Cloze measure and the multiple production measure were highly correlated, sentence predictability was higher when the multiple production measure was used. These sentence norms provide an alternative to norms derived using the Cloze procedure.

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  1. Department of Educational Psychology and the Institute for Behavioral Research, University of Georgia, 30602, Athens, GA

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I thank Dawn Brennan and Leonie Escoffery for their help in data collection and tabulation.

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Schwanenflugel, P.J. Completion norms for final words of sentences using a multiple production measure. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers 18, 363–371 (1986). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03204419

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