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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neuropsychologia. 2014 Jun 20;61:150–162. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.06.016

Table 2.

Characteristics of pre- and post-critical noun position words in Experiment 1

Pre-critical noun words (indefinite articles) Post-critical noun words
Condition label Article a/an proportions Article cloze probability proportions Mean article cloze probability (SD) Word class proportions Mean word length (SD) Mean KF written frequency (SD) Mean orthographic neighborhood (SD)
EXP 50% a
50% an 		100% high cloze .83 (.16) 89% closed/11% open class 3.5 (1.7) 9,655 (10, 635) 5.1 (3.0)
USP 54% a
46% an 		47% high cloze
53% low cloze		 .42 (.41) 89% closed/11% open class 3.5 (1.8) 10,489 (11,790) 5.0 (3.0)
ANOM 46% a
54% an 		53% high cloze
47% low cloze		 .47 (.41) 88% closed/12% open class 3.5 (1.7) 8,712 (9,056) 5.1 (3.0)