Table 2. Average Psycholinguistic Properties of First Words Used in Experiment 2.
| Property | HIHD | HILD | LIHD | LILD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Note. Standard deviations are shown in parentheses. HI = high imageability; LI = low imageability; HD = high semantic diversity; LD = low semantic diversity. | ||||
| Imageability | 556 (89) | 568 (97) | 366 (62) | 382 (71) |
| SemD | 1.79 (.18) | 1.53 (.25) | 1.86 (.21) | 1.56 (.23) |
| Log frequency | 1.48 (.56) | 1.46 (.57) | 1.40 (.63) | 1.34 (.63) |
| Subjective frequency | 421 (111) | 418 (175) | 456 (91) | 423 (146) |
| Age of acquisition | 356 (68) | 351 (91) | 386 (97) | 387 (99) |
| Orthographic neighbors | 6.35 (5.86) | 6.27 (5.85) | 5.43 (5.24) | 5.53 (5.22) |
| Length | 4.73 (1.13) | 4.67 (1.13) | 4.67 (1.19) | 4.63 (1.21) |
| Bigram frequency | 1353 (1033) | 1689 (1717) | 1516 (1997) | 1265 (1088) |
| Target production rate in free association | 2.38% (5.36) | 1.71% (4.75) | 2.11% (5.75) | 2.78% (8.71) |