Table 2.
Formal stimulus characteristics.
| Words |
Digits |
Syllables |
Word frequency1 |
Stylistic features |
Google counts1 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | |
| Familiar | 5.08 | 1.73 | 29.28 | 9.36 | 7.50 | 2.60 | 3.79 | 0.51 | 2.35 | 1.00 | 9.58 | 2.76 |
| Unfamiliar | 5.08 | 1.97 | 30.20 | 9.42 | 7.85 | 2.58 | 3.62 | 0.56 | 2.30 | 1.07 | 1.68 | 1.18 |
| Variant | 5.08 | 1.73 | 29.50 | 9.13 | 7.58 | 2.44 | 3.74 | 0.58 | 2.18 | 1.06 | 1.74 | 2.86 |
| Substitution | 5.08 | 1.73 | 30.28 | 8.48 | 7.73 | 2.45 | 3.72 | 0.55 | 2.10 | 1.06 | 0.94 | 1.70 |
| Non-rhetorical | 5.33 | 0.89 | 32.03 | 4.15 | 8.38 | 1.44 | 3.77 | 0.72 | – | – | 0.12 | 0.41 |
| Significances | n.s. | n.s. | n.s. | n.s. | n.s. | F(4,195) = 145.47, p < 0.001 | ||||||
1Mean logarithmic frequency.