Picture Stimuli

This weekend, I worked on some ideas for picture stimuli for some future production experiments. I have always been concerned with the Bock & Miller (1991) and Franck et al. (2002) method of presenting stimuli. In B&M, they auditorily present NP PP preambles and participants repeat them back before going on to complete a full sentence. In Franck et al., participants read preambles off a computer screen and then go on to complete a sentence. Both of these methods have a pretty substantial flaw, in that they require comprehension of a pre-existing phrase (i.e., the message has to be extracted through comprehension). However, if participants were to use pictures to formulate a message, the comprehension aspect would be avoided. This is the goal for these experiments...we'll see how it goes.