Table 4.
Experiment 2 Critical Item Condition Means (and SDs) for Critical and Control Variables
| Many near neighbors
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Few near neighbors
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| Variable | Many distant | Few distant | Many distant | Few distant |
| No. near neighbors | 4.5 (3.0) | 3.9 (3.1) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.2 (0.4) |
| No. distant neighbors | 227 (26.5) | 109 (28.3) | 249 (39.2) | 113 (23.9) |
| No. associates | 14.8 (5.2) | 13.6 (2.8) | 14.7 (6.3) | 13.0 (5.2) |
| COALS_all | 0.73 (0.072) | 0.76 (0.11) | 0.72 (0.08) | 0.75 (0.078) |
| Ln(frequency) | 1.8 (1.6) | 1.9 (1.6) | 2.3 (1.3) | 2.5 (1.3) |
| Familiarity | 5.0 (1.9) | 5.6 (2.2) | 5.8 (1.5) | 5.9 (2.1) |
| Age of acquisitiona | 293.5 (63.9) | 275.8 (61.2) | 290.8 (77.2) | 286.3 (31.0) |
| No. letters | 5.4 (1.7) | 5.4 (1.7) | 5.2 (1.5) | 5.2 (1.0) |
| No. phonemes | 4.4 (1.6) | 4.3 (1.6) | 4.4 (1.4) | 4.5 (1.1) |
| No. syllables | 1.6 (0.8) | 1.6 (0.6) | 1.6 (0.5) | 1.7 (0.6) |
| Coltheart’s N | 3.7 (4.3) | 3.4 (4.4) | 3.2 (4.1) | 3.4 (5.0) |
| Congruent N | 2.3 (2.8) | 1.7 (2.8) | 1.8 (2.5) | 1.7 (3.1) |
| No. features | 14.2 (3.9) | 13.0 (3.4) | 14.8 (3.2) | 13.7 (3.9) |
| Concreteness | 598.1 (26.0) | 603.0 (17.2) | 607.3 (19.0) | 598.4 (16.9) |
| No. creatures | 9 | 9 | 9 | 5 |
| No. fruits/vegetables | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| No. nonliving | 13 | 11 | 11 | 16 |
Note. There were 25 words in each condition. COALS_all = Correlated Occurrence Analogue to Lexical Semantic, mean distance among all items.
a
Note that age of acquisition data were available for only 30% of items (24%–36% for each condition).