“…This "null" semantic NP effect for words is not uncommon. Although most published studies on semantic NP have observed this effect in at least one condition, every one of these studies has found either null effects or semantic PP in other, highly similar, conditions (Fox, 1996;Fuentes & Tudela, 1992;Marí-Beffa, Fuentes, Catena, & Houghton, 2000;Ortells et al, 2001;Ortells & Tudela, 1996;Richards, 1999;Yee, 1991).…”