Table 2.
Length and frequency characteristics of the related primes and targets. Frequencies (log10 scale) were obtained from the CELEX English lexical database (Baayen, Piepenbrock & Gullikers, 1995). Token frequencies were computed per million.
| Complex | Pseudocomplex | Simplex | ||||
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| Mean | (SE) | Mean | (SE) | Mean | (SE) | |
| LSA | 0.32 | (0.02) | 0.06 | (0.01) | 0.06 | (0.01) |
| Target Length | 7.08 | (0.12) | 6.83 | (0.13) | 6.88 | (0.11) |
| Target CBF | 14310.48 | (492.03) | 14132.79 | (498.45) | 13779.02 | (570.82) |
| Target NS | 0.77 | (0.12) | 0.97 | (0.14) | 1.02 | (0.17) |
| Target LF | 0.69 | (0.05) | 0.81 | (0.07) | 0.74 | (0.06) |
| Nonword Prime | ||||||
| Length | 7.61 | (0.10) | 7.46 | (0.11) | 7.40 | (0.11) |
| Stem Length | 4.49 | (0.09) | 4.34 | (0.09) | 4.26 | (0.07) |
| Stem CBF | 6836.33 | (383.92) | 7115.82 | (356.47) | 7481.60 | (373.00) |
| Stem NS | 5.62 | (0.48) | 6.53 | (0.56) | 6.94 | (0.52) |
| Stem LF | 1.40 | (0.07) | 1.37 | (0.08) | 1.31 | (0.08) |
| Suffix Length | 2.59 | (0.07) | 2.49 | (0.08) | 2.62 | (0.09) |