Table 1.
Average values (and standard deviations) of a range of psycholinguistic variables as a function of regularity and frequency for the verb stems and action pictures.
| Variable | Low Frequency | High Frequency | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irregular | Regular | Irregular | Regular | |
| Lemma Frequency/Million | 52 (23) | 40 (24) | 295 (302) | 291 (315) |
| Frequency/Million Present | 14 (7) | 10 (7) | 116 (131) | 142 (191) |
| Frequency/Million Past | 16 (8) | 14 (10) | 78 (57) | 76 (78) |
| Letter Length Present | 4.53 (0.74) | 4.27 (0.88) | 4.27 (0.88) | 4.27 (0.59) |
| Letter Length Past | 4.40 (0.91) | 6.00 (0.93) | 4.40 (1.18) | 6.07 (0.59) |
| Phonemic Length Present | 3.73 (0.70) | 3.20 (0.68) | 3.33 (0.62) | 3.13 (0.35) |
| Phonemic Length Past | 3.80 (0.77) | 4.20 (0.68) | 3.40 (0.74) | 4.13 (0.35) |
| Stem Body Neighbourhood | 9.93 (4.38) | 6.87 (6.32) | 9.40 (3.70) | 7.07 (4.79) |
| Consistency Type | 0.286 (0.162) | 0.987 (0.052) | 0.239 (0.145) | 0.968 (0.060) |
| Consistency Token | 0.497 (0.345) | 0.976 (0.089) | 0.715 (0.242) | 0.894 (0.250) |
| Name Agreement | 0.797 (0.225) | 0.776 (0.277) | 0.770 (0.236) | 0.733 (0.233) |
| Name Entropy | 0.898 (0.779) | 0.705 (0.559) | 1.024 (0.779) | 1.105 (0.833) |
| Objective Complexity | 21784 (6748) | 23541 (5305) | 25110 (7224) | 28674 (7736) |
| Conceptual Complexity | 2.53 (0.74) | 2.93 (0.80) | 2.73 (0.70) | 2.87 (0.92) |
| Picture Naming Latency | 1226 (372) | 1170 (192) | 1223 (232) | 1256 (311) |