Table 3.

Number of MCDI nouns in each classification per area based on Samuelson and Smith’s (1999) adult judgments of solidity, syntax, and category organization.

For shape side		For material side		Against the system		Ambiguous		Grand total
Solid + count	52	Non-solid + mass	5	Solid + mass	2	Solid	9
Solid + shape	5	Non-solid + material	2	Solid + material + either syntax	25	Count	38
Count + shape	24	Mass + material	9	Count + material	2	Shape	4
Solid + count + shape	104	Non-solid + mass + material	6	Shape + material + either syntax	2	Non-solid	2
						Mass	6
						Material	5
						None	11
Area total	185		22		31		74	312