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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 4.
Published in final edited form as: Lang Cogn Process. 2010 Jul 19;26(3):376–405. doi: 10.1080/01690965.2010.492642

Table 1.

Corpus results from Gigaword for COMPLEX-TYP & COMPLEX-ATYP conditions: mean frequencies of adjectives, the mean conditional probability of the adjective preceding the head noun (P(adj|noun)) and the mean conditional probability of the head noun following the adjective (P(noun|adj)).

MeanFreq.ofAdj. P(adj|noun) P(noun|adj)

COMPLEX-TYP 127613.17 .00377 .00359
COMPLEX-ATYP 86544.87 .00012 .00063

Ratio 1.475:1 31.176:1 5.697:1