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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2010 Jun 23;63(12):2376–2398. doi: 10.1080/17470211003687546

Table 1. Lexical Characteristics of the Stimuli used in Experiments 1 and 2 (Standard Deviations in Parentheses).

Length Orthographic N Log HAL Frequency Mean RT* Mean Accuracy*
Targets
 Low Frequency 6.67 (2.88) 5.88 (6.48) 6.72 (.80) 740 (97) .87 (.14)
 High Frequency 6.96 (2.96) 5.5 (8.75) 11.06 (1.05) 625 (73) .98 (.02)
  Nonwords** 5 (.98) 3.67 (2.82)
Fillers
 Low Frequency 7.04 (2.88) 4.29 (4.71) 6.93 (.80) 741 (109) .93 (.11)
 High Frequency 6.54 (2.88) 5.04 (6.82) 10.88 (.83) 624 (57) .98 (.03)
  Nonwords 6.33 (2.20) 3.02 (4.08)

HAL frequency counts are based on approximately 400 million observations (Brysbaert & New, 2009). The table presents log-transformed frequency estimates

*

Estimates obtained from the ELP database

**

Nonwords did not serve as targets in Experiment 2 because they were not primed