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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Mem Lang. 2015 Aug 1;83:118–139. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2015.04.005

Table 1.

Lexical characteristics of and normative data for target and preview words used in the experiments. Standard errors are in parentheses.

Variable Target Identical Preview Condition
Synonym Semantic Unrelated
Length 5.61 (1.46) 5.61 (1.46) 5.61 (1.46) 5.61 (1.46)
Log Frequency (HAL) 8.31 (1.86) 10.26 (1.46) 8.99 (2.11) 10.04 (1.53)
Total Letters Shared with Target -- .72 (.09) .81 (.10) .55 (.07)
Initial Letters Shared with Target -- .09 (.03) .15 (.05) .09 (.03)
Cloze p in Neutral Contexts .02 (.05) .05 (.12) .00 (.02) .00 (.01)
Cloze p in Constrained Contexts .21 (.02) .25 (.03) .00 (.00) .00 (.00)
Preview-Target Relatedness (1–9 scale) -- 7.5 (.97) 5.6 (1.5) 2.4 (.97)