Table 1.

Example sentences and mean co-occurrence measures (Ms and SDs) for each of the six conditions.

Version	Example sentences	Co-occurrence
		M	SD
Positive noun–Positive adjective	The grandpa is clever	0.48	2.82
Positive noun–Neutral adjective	The grandpa is small	2.40	24.56
Positive noun–Negative adjective	The grandpa is lonely	0.20	1.51
Negative noun–Positive adjective	The burglar is clever	0.87	4.41
Negative noun–Neutral adjective	The burglar is small	1.15	4.85
Negative noun–Negative adjective	The burglar is lonely	0.21	2.57
Nonsense sentences	The milk is careful	–	–

Sentences based co-occurrence measures were taken from the German corpus of the “Wortschatz” project (http://corpora.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/, status: December 2006; Quasthoff et al., 2006).