Table 3.

Comparison of final stimuli across modality and figurativeness conditions.

	Modality				Figurativeness
	Motion metaphor/Auditory metaphor		Motion literal/Auditory literal		Motion literal/Motion metaphor		Auditory literal/Auditory metaphor
	t	Sig.	t	Sig.	t	Sig.	t	Sig.
Sentence
Cloze probability		ns		ns		ns		ns
Familiarity		ns		ns	5.66	<0.001	6.91	<0.001
Imageability		ns	4.74	<0.001	10.13	<0.001	5.63	<0.001
Figurativeness		ns		ns	−20.95	<0.001	−21.98	<0.001
Valence		ns	2.4	0.02		ns		ns
Valence RT		ns	3.1	0.003		ns	1.99	0.05
Pilot accuracy	1.95	0.055		ns	2.92	0.004	4.59	<0.001
Pilot RT		ns		ns	−3.14	0.002	−2.81	0.006
# characters		ns		ns		ns		ns
# words		ns		ns		ns		ns
# content words		ns		ns		ns		ns
KF frequency		ns		ns		ns		ns
BN frequency		ns		ns		ns		ns
Concreteness		ns		ns		ns		ns
Target word
#characters		ns		ns		n/a		n/a
KF frequency		ns		ns		n/a		n/a
BN frequency		ns		ns		n/a		n/a
Concreteness		ns		ns		n/a		n/a

Degrees of freedom = 98 for each t-test. ns = non-significant, p < 0.05 (two-tailed). See the legend for Table 2 for information about the items listed.