Table 3.
Mean lexical characteristics of selected Related and Miscellaneous categories
| Category | No. Items |
Total Trials |
Trials at Ordinal Position41 |
Correlation (LogRT × Trial in Block) |
No. Syllables |
Log Noun Lexeme Frequency2 |
Neighbourhood Density3 |
Name Agreement (H-Statistic)5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birds | 13 | 1601 | 22 | 0.446 | 1.85 | 0.52 | 6.92 | 0.24 |
| Body Parts | 18 | 2467 | 40 | 0.339 | 1.22 | 1.55 | 14.78 | 0.58 |
| Buildings | 12 | 1603 | 10 | 0.372 | 2.00 | 1.43 | 5.75 | 0.42 |
| Clothing | 25 | 3289 | 146 | 0.428 | 1.46 | 0.92 | 13.38 | 0.54 |
| Other Food | 13 | 1766 | 23 | −0.101 | 1.77 | 0.75 | 8.85 | 0.30 |
| Forest Animals | 13 | 1590 | 14 | 0.341 | 1.46 | 0.61 | 11.54 | 0.25 |
| Furniture | 17 | 2241 | 31 | −0.101 | 1.53 | 1.34 | 8.06 | 0.24 |
| Games & Toys | 13 | 1727 | 12 | −0.330 | 1.62 | 0.83 | 10.15 | 0.61 |
| Occupations | 13 | 1735 | 16 | 0.334 | 1.69 | 1.10 | 5.31 | 0.27 |
| Occupational Tools |
11 | 1455 | 11 | −0.093 | 1.55 | 1.15 | 12.18 | 0.50 |
| Transportation | 12 | 1528 | 26 | −0.163 | 1.50 | 1.32 | 10.58 | 0.39 |
| Zoo Animals | 15 | 1888 | 23 | 0.358 | 2.13 | 0.39 | 4.60 | 0.66 |
| Mean Semantic | 14.6 | 1907.5 | 31.2 | 0.414 | 1.648 | 0.990 | 9.341 | 0.417 |
| Miscellaneous Items | 30.0 | 3789 | 226 | −0.343 | 1.533 | 1.229 | 11.067 | 0.319 |
1
Ordinal Position4: Number of items occurring as the 4th exemplar of a category in a given block for a given participant
2
Log Noun Lexeme Frequency: Francis-Kucera (1982) frequency of the lexeme form of a noun, log-transformed
3
Neighbourhood Density: Number of words related to a target by the omission, addition, or substitution of a single phoneme
4
Name Agreement: An index of the number of alternative responses given to a picture (see Snodgrass & Vanderwart, 1980)