Table 12.
Artificial object nouns used in Experiments 1A and 1B
| Item number | Object noun | Number of phonemes | Summated bigram frequency |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | elom | 4 | 7787 |
| 2 | teos | 4 | 8214 |
| 3 | riun | 4 | 10,290 |
| 4 | unak | 4 | 9259 |
| 5 | etef | 4 | 10,409 |
| 6 | ilil | 4 | 7599 |
| 7 | deluf | 5 | 11,848 |
| 8 | eitak | 4 | 16,832 |
| 9 | besak | 5 | 11,047 |
| 10 | refam | 5 | 10,431 |
| 11 | gunal | 5 | 12,615 |
| 12 | jetem | 5 | 10,741 |
| 13 | gitun | 5 | 13,482 |
| 14 | lelop | 5 | 11,810 |
| 15 | urets | 5 | 12,582 |
| 16 | osret | 5 | 11,122 |
| 17 | ketiz | 6 | 10,727 |
| 18 | atunz | 6 | 12,051 |
| 19 | filan | 5 | 1438 |
| 20 | molun | 5 | 10,379 |
| 21 | tekes | 5 | 14,104 |
| 22 | geop | 4 | 6572 |
| 23 | tetak | 5 | 13,261 |
| 24 | inut | 4 | 7084 |
| 25 | melam | 5 | 12,564 |
| 26 | witim | 5 | 11,101 |
| 27 | akest | 5 | 13,904 |
| 28 | rebif | 5 | 10,397 |
| 29 | unol | 4 | 8837 |
| 30 | noref | 5 | 11,274 |
| 31 | astop | 5 | 10,505 |
| 32 | imres | 5 | 11,300 |
| 33 | abun | 4 | 8898 |
| 34 | runot | 5 | 10,805 |
| 35 | elwan | 5 | 11,828 |
| 36 | nelun | 5 | 16,103 |
Items 31 to 36 (novel-new object nouns) were not used during the training procedure. Items 25 to 30 (novel-old object nouns) were only used during the vocabulary training and vocabulary review, but not during the syntax training