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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Vis cogn. 2014 Mar 7;22(2):193–213. doi: 10.1080/13506285.2014.890689

Table 1.

Lexical properties of different preview conditions

Preview Identical Initial-plausible implausible
Word frequency 22 (40) 24 (43) 22 (39)
Log word frequency 0.64 (.94) 0.83 (0.78) 0.63 (0.98)
Character frequency
  1st character 794 (1305) 802 (1345) 817 (1117)
  2nd character 794 (1305) 772 (1390) 769 (1275)
Log character frequency
  1st character 2.47 (.69) 2.48 (0.67) 2.55 (0.62)
  2nd character 2.47 (.69) 2.49 (0.59) 2.48 (0.64)
Number of strokes
  1st character 9.3 (3.5) 9.2 (3.0) 8.9 (3.1)
  2nd character 9.3 (3.5) 9.4 (3.3) 9.1 (3.5)

Notes: Numbers in parentheses are standard deviations. Frequency is measured as character/word per million from a Chinese Dictionary (Corpus from China Daily, 1998).