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This paper presents normative data about the frequency with which college students construct sentences with different syntactically defined frames for 127 English verbs. The norms are intended to be of use to experimenters in preparing materials to study sentence comprehension.
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Connine, C., Ferreira, F., Jones, C. et al. Verb frame preferences: Descriptive norms. J Psycholinguist Res 13, 307–319 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01076840
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