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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 2.
Published in final edited form as: Ment Lex. 2009 Nov 1;4(1):1–25. doi: 10.1075/ml.4.1.01pas

Table 2.

Mean (SD) Attributes of Primes and Targets for each Stimulus Set (n = 52)

Prime Type
−F+M +F−M +F+M −F−M Target
SWIM COAT BOAT SEED FLOAT
Printed frequency 70.4 (95.7) 74.2 (99.6) 87.8 (158.2) 76.3 (95.6) 26.4 (55.5)
Word length 4.5 (0.9) 4.3 (0.9) 4.3 (0.9) 4.4 (0.7) 4.5 (0.9)
Onset length 1.4 (0.7) 1.3 (0.6) 1.3 (0.6) 1.3 (0.6) 1.5 (0.6)
Body length 3.1 (1.0) 3.0 (0.8) 3.0 (0.8) 3.2 (0.7) 3.0 (0.8)
# of syllables 1.2 (0.5) 1.1 (0.2) 1.1 (0.3) 1.1 (0.2) 1.1 (0.2)
# of orthographic neighbors 5.2 (3.8) 7.0 (4.7) 7.3 (5.0) 6.2 (4.6) 5.6 (4.2)
P-T orthographic overlap 0.01 (0.00) 0.70 (0.10) 0.71 (0.10) 0.01 (0.01)
P-T LSA 0.33 (0.18) 0.12 (0.09) 0.26 (0.20) 0.09 (0.07)