Table 2.

Characteristics of the words used in the Semantic Similarity Judgment task. See Table 1 for key.

	Verbs					Nouns
	Action	SD	Non-action	SD	T-test p	Manip	SD	Non-manip	SD	T-test p
NLett	5.13	0.97	5.10	0.83	0.87	5.70	1.67	5.68	1.54	1.00
NPhon	4.08	0.77	4.09	0.92	0.93	4.51	1.34	4.62	1.55	0.48
NSyll	1.29	0.40	1.36	0.37	0.44	1.58	0.62	1.66	0.75	0.30
Log F	1.19	0.36	1.12	0.33	0.37	0.99	0.54	1.07	0.49	0.20
LD RT	655	41	649	42	0.55	662	73	656	64	0.49
LD Acc	0.94	0.05	0.95	0.04	0.39	0.94	0.09	0.95	0.08	0.61
NamingRT	628	34	627	33	0.83	638	63	630	54	0.29
Bigram F	1593	480	1756	378	0.10	1654	746	1663	800	0.91
SemD	1.69	0.15	1.72	0.14	0.35	1.51	0.23	1.49	0.22	0.40
Conc	-	-	-	-	-	582	42	567	49	0.38
BOI	-	-	-	-	-	5.14	1.00	3.91	1.30	<.001