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"The published literature is consistent with the generalization that when the stimuli in both the sentence and the recall tasks are presented in an uninterrupted fashion - as when the digit load is presented prior to each sentence and must be recalled once the sentence has been understood - no interference is found, but when the presentation of the stimuli in one task is interrupted by the presentation of the stimulus relevant to the second - as when the sentence is interrupted by a series of words while it is being presented, or the presentation of the items to be recalled is staggered across the sentence task (as in sentence final word recall) - a digit load of sufficient size interferes with processing syntactically complex sentences more than with processing syntactically simple sentences."