Table 2.

Descriptive statistics of semantic variables used in the study.

Variable	Distribution
Valence of left	N = 308; range = 1.89–8.21; M = 5.57 (1.12)
Valence of right	N = 261; range = 1.62–7.78; M = 5.59 (1.02)
Valence of compound	N = 503; range = 1.79–8.14; M = 5.33 (1.14)
Arousal of left	N = 308; range = 2.05–7.74; M = 3.95 (0.95)
Arousal of right	N = 261; range = 2.21–7.74; M = 3.89 (0.91)
Arousal of compound	N = 503; range = 2.25–6.91; M = 4.07 (0.90)
Imageability of left	N = 470; range = 1.6–6.9; M = 5.69 (1.11)
Imageability of right	N = 390; range = 1.7–7.0; M = 5.36 (1.18)
Imageability of compound	N = 997; range = 1.16–6.90; M = 4.6 (1.32)
Concreteness of left	N = 678; range = 1.61–5.00; M = 4.44 (0.54)
Concreteness of right	N = 713; range = 2.13–5.00; M = 4.17 (0.66)
Concreteness of compound	N = 704; range = 1.68–5.00; M = 4.22 (0.56)
SER of left	N = 479; range = 1.20–6.33; M = 3.23 (0.96)
SER of right	N = 383; range = 1.18–6.33; M = 3.05 (0.87)
SER of compound	N = 776; range = 1.40–6.26; M = 3.37 (0.87)
BOI of left	N = 318; range = 1.37–6.66; M = 4.28 (1.39)
BOI of right	N = 262; range = 1.40–6.66; M = 4.27 (1.41)
BOI of compound	N = 696; range = 1.17–6.94; M = 4.33 (1.42)

N is the count of unique constituents or compounds for which lexical decision times and frequency counts are available. Numbers in parentheses report standard deviations.