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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2006 Mar 6.
Published in final edited form as: J Child Lang. 2005 Nov;32(4):827–853. doi: 10.1017/s0305000905007099

Table 2.

Phonotactic probability, neighborhood density, and word frequency for the stimuli in each condition

Known Novel
Mean Positional Segment Frequency Sum
(SD)
Common 0.1894 0.2007
(0.0347) (0.0378)
Rare 0.1061 0.1118
(0.0166)
(0.0196)
Mean Biphone Frequency Sum
(SD)
Common 0.0064 0.0075
(0.0116) (0.0028)
Rare 0.0021 0.0020
(0.0005)
(0.0006)
Mean Neighborhood Density
(SD)
Common 15 16
(2) (2)
Rare 7 5
(2)
(1)
Mean Log Word Frequency
(SD)
Common 1.70 0
(0.62)
Rare 1.68 0
(0.73)