Table 2.

Summary of Final Stimuli Characteristics by Sentence Type

	Literal								Metaphorical
	PA		PM		NA		NM		PA		PM		NA		NM
	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD
Base Auditory Imagery	3.96	0.5	1.46	0.4	4.03	0.5	1.69	0.6	3.96	0.5	1.46	0.4	4.03	0.5	1.69	0.6
Base Visual Imagery	2.82	0.5	3.52	0.7	2.72	0.6	3.63	0.7	2.82	0.5	3.52	0.7	2.72	0.6	3.63	0.7
Concreteness	510	48	502	50	434	65	440	55	492	155	477	57	434	65	422	61
Frequency1	83	108	85	93	83	142	73	88	92	108	100	111	60	78	78	91
Frequency2	103	118	82	123	92	140	86	173	70	93	113	169	72	137	78	94
# Characters	36.5	5.7	37.4	5.2	30.8	4.1	31.1	3.9	37.3	5.2	38.8	4.8	32.1	4.4	31.9	3.8
# Words	6.5	0.8	6.5	0.6	5.9	0.4	6.1	0.4	6.6	0.8	6.5	0.7	6.0	0.5	6.1	0.4
# Content words	3.6	0.6	3.6	0.5	3.0	0.4	3.1	0.4	3.6	0.7	3.6	0.5	3.0	0.4	3.1	0.4
Interpretability	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.95	0.06	0.96	0.06	0.93	0.08	0.92	0.09
Familiarity	5.81	0.82	5.51	0.9	5.30	0.8	5.32	0.9	2.84	1.1	4.11	1.4	3.81	1.2	4.13	1.2
Naturalness	5.88	0.84	5.66	0.9	5.78	0.8	5.76	0.8	3.00	1.0	4.15	1.3	4.09	1.2	4.56	1.2
Imageability	6.07	0.72	6.15	0.7	5.12	0.8	5.84	0.8	3.14	0.8	3.45	1.3	3.90	0.9	4.06	0.8
Figurativeness	1.50	0.56	1.69	0.7	2.27	0.7	2.16	0.8	6.15	0.6	5.33	1.0	5.31	0.7	5.42	0.8
Valence RT (ms)	1455	220	1459	185	1388	189	1485	220	1528	185	1591	197	1491	256	1485	201
Valence Positive Ratio	0.19	0.26	0.21	0.24	0.17	0.26	0.29	0.29	0.18	0.27	0.25	0.28	0.27	0.32	0.28	0.32

Key: PA = Predicate Auditory; PM = Predicate Motion; NA = Nominal Auditory; NM = Nominal Motion

¹Frequency = values from Kucera & Francis (1967)

²Frequency = SUBTL_WF values from Brysbaert & New (2009).