Table 1.

Mean word length and mean word frequency (per million; see Kutera & Francis, 1967) for the different stimulus categories (range between parentheses) in Experiments 1 and 2.

	Word length				Word frequency
	Experiment 1		Experiment 2		Experiment 1		Experiment 2
	L	NL	L	NL	L	NL	L	NL
Small	5.3 (3–9)	5.9 (3–11)	4.9 (3–8)	5.2 (4–8)	10.6 (2–37)	11.4 (1–34)	15.1 (6–37)	15.7 (6–34)
Large	5.0 (3–8)	5.6 (3–9)	4.6 (3–8)	4.7 (3–7)	10.9 (1–32)	11.3 (2–32)	15.5 (7–32)	15.4 (6–32)

Note: L = Living; NL = non-living