Table 2.

Results of pretest ratings for the sentence-pairs and their critical words. Differences among means were not significant (all ps>.1) except for those marked with an *(ps<.05, see text)

	Positive mean (SD)	Negative mean (SD)	Neutral mean (SD)
Affect of the sentence pair*	5.73 (0.4)	2.11 (0.5)	4.21 (0.5)
Affect of the critical word*	5.43 (0.8)	2.19 (0.7)	4.30 (0.7)
Arousal of the critical word*	4.26 (1.1)	4.64 (0.9)	3.37 (0.9)
Concreteness of the critical word	3.76 (1.3)	3.85 (1.1)	4.03 (1.1)
Cloze probability percentage*	3.52 (7.93)	1.42 (5.12)	1.14 (4.21)
Plausibility*	5.82 (1.56)	4.72 (1.55)	5.63 (1.12)
Number of letters in the critical word	7.30 (2.4)	6.76 (2.3)	7.27 (2.2)
K-F Frequency of the critical word	46.55 (101. 4)	38.42 (99.6)	54.44 (57.4)