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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Mem Lang. 2009 Nov;61(4):538–555. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2009.08.003

Table 1.

Mean values (with standard deviations in parentheses) of lexical features of the two word types (NV-homographs and unambiguous words) in Experiment 1.

NV-homographs Unambiguous words
‘the duck’/‘to duck’ ‘the logic’/‘to vary’
Log frequency 1.56
(0.58)		 1.58
(0.51)
Word length 4.8
(1.3)		 5.2
(1.1)
Concreteness
(1=very abstract; 7=very concrete)		 4.7
(1.0)		 4.7
(1.0)
Semantic distinctiveness
(1=very different; 7=very similar)		 2.7
(0.8)		 N/A