Table 1.
Lexical characteristics of and normative data for target and preview words used in Experiment 1 (all conditions except semantically related) and Experiment 2 (all conditions). Standard errors are in parentheses.
| Variable | Target Identical |
Preview Condition | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Synonym | Semantic | Unrelated | ||
| Length | 5.61 (1.46) | 5.61 (1.46) | 5.61 (1.46) | 5.61 (1.46) |
| Log Frequency (HAL) | 8.31 (1.86) | 10.26 (1.46) | 8.99 (2.11) | 10.04 (1.53) |
| Total Letters Shared with Target | -- | .72 (.09) | .81 (.10) | .55 (.07) |
| Initial Letters Shared with Target | -- | .09 (.03) | .15 (.05) | .09 (.03) |
| Cloze Predictability | .02 (.05) | .05 (.12) | .00 (.02) | .00 (.01) |
| Word Relatedness to Target (1–9 scale) | -- | 7.5 (.97) | 5.6 (1.5) | 2.4 (.97) |
| Sentence Fragment Relatedness to Target (1–9 scale) | -- | 7.2 (1.3) | 4.9 (1.8) | 1.9 (.72) |
| Proportion of Items that are Semantically Anomalous | .00 | .00 | .17 | .70 |
| Proportion of Items that are Syntactically Anomalous | .00 | . 00 | .13 | .40 |