2.3. Experimental Stimuli and Design
The subjects were asked to answer a ‘Yes/No’ question about sentences containing either SRC or ORC. An example sentence-question pair can be seen below (3). The sentences were adapted from Traxler et al. (2002) and translated into Turkish. To ensure that each sentence consists of 10 words, adjectives or adverbs were used, where necessary. The full stimuli list can be found in Appendix A (Full Stimuli List). There were 24 sentence-questions pairs (i.e., trials) in total. The number of SRC-containing and ORC-containing sentences was equal. Furthermore, the questions were arranged in a way that both SRC and ORC conditions required an equal number of ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ answers (i.e., 6 ‘Yes’ and 6 ‘No’ in both conditions).
(3) Oyun kurucudan nefret eden defans oyuncusu kötü bir espri yaptı.