Table 1.
Familiarity, word frequency and imageability values for the four- and six-letter words, with bigram frequency values for the four- and six-letter words and non-words. (Note: words and non-words cannot be matched on familiarity, word frequency or imageability.)
| words |
non-words |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| four letters | six letters | four letters | six letters | |
| familiarity | ||||
| mean | 568 | 576 | ||
| s.d. | 24.5 | 37.6 | ||
| word frequency | ||||
| mean | 2.35 | 2.30 | ||
| s.d. | 0.29 | 0.23 | ||
| imageability | ||||
| mean | 444 | 481 | ||
| s.d. | 88.9 | 103.5 | ||
| bigram frequency | ||||
| mean | 1883 | 2163 | 1910 | 2015 |
| s.d. | 577 | 433 | 1062 | 617 |