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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Nov 20.
Published in final edited form as: Neuroimage. 2009 Nov 4;49(3):2649–2661. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.10.082

Table 1.

Characteristics of the six different item types

Words
 PH
 PW
Characteristics short long short long short long
Number of letters M (SD) 4.5 (0.6) 7.5 (1.2) 4.6 (0.7) 7.5 (1.2) 4.5 (0.6) 7.5 (1.1)
Number of syllables M (SD) 1.3 (0.5) 2.1 (0.6) 1.3 (0.5) 2.2 (0.7) 1.3 (0.5) 2.2 (0.6)
Frequency (/million) M (SD) 1.2 (0.7) 1.2 (0.6) - - - -
Neighbours M (SD) 1.3 (1.1) 1.3 (1.5) 2.3 (2.0) 1.3 (0.9) 1.3 (1.7) 0.4 (0.8)
Bigram frequency M
(SD)		 18638
(18088)		 79972
(37815)		 18553
(18852)		 71057
(37040)		 15463
(15928)		 66639
(38876)

Abbreviations: PH = Pseudohomophones, PW = Pseudowords.