Table 3.

Means for concreteness, number of letters, number of syllables, and word frequency for english and Spanish prime target words. Square brackets represent SE.

	English primes		Spanish primes
	Related	Unrelated	Related	Unrelated
Frequency 1	3.78 [0.04]	4.18 [0.04]	2.47 [0.04]	2.73 [0.04]
Concreteness 2	3.78 [0.04]	3.61 [0.05]	2.24 [0.07]	2.80 [0.07]
Number of letters	6.57 [0.09]	6.18 [0.09]	7.39 [0.10]	6.92 [0.10]
Number of syllables	1.93 [0.04]	1.88 [0.03]	3.16 [0.04]	2.95 [0.04]

¹Based on SUBTLEX-US and SUBTLEX-ESP: log frequency.

²Based on concreteness ratings from⁴⁵ for Spanish: 1- very abstract, 9- very concrete; English concreteness values based on⁴⁴ – the Spanish scale was recoded to be comparable with English: 1-abstract, 5-concrete.