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. 2008 Oct;109(1):1–17. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.06.011

Table 3.

Descriptive lexical statistics by condition: median lemma frequencies per million, summed word form frequencies per million, and familiarity and imageability ratings (word 2 medians reported for the different pairs)

Condition Word 1
Word 2
Lemma
Wf sum Fam Imag Lemma
Wf sum Fam Imag
noun verb noun verb
Real regular past filled–fill 0 37 14 500 415 0 37 13 504 441
Pseudo past in /t/ /d/ mild–mile 5 0 14 539 504 5 0 14 506 505
[−Cor, −Voice] in /p/ /k/ lamp–lamb 3 3 3 435 463 5 3 10 469 467
[+Cor, −Voice] in /t/ belt–bell 10 1 9 481 449 9 1 10 517 447
Present tense in /s/ /z/ fails–fail 0 14 1 469 400 0 14 1 484 400
Plural in /s/ and /z/ meals–meal 37 0 13 510 549 37 0 10 510 569
Regular past in /Id/ folded–fold 0 7 2 491 398 0 7 5 491 408
Progressive aspect Inline graphic fending–fend 0 22 6 429 384 0 22 7 468 398