Table 2.
Means and standard deviations (SD) for the psycholinguistic characteristics of each word type.
| Exception words |
Regular words |
Pseudowords |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Psycholinguistic characteristics | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD |
| Frequency | 5.02 | 7.03 | 5.22 | 6.41 | - | - |
| Imageability | 4.55 | 1.62 | 4.65 | 1.59 | - | - |
| SumTypeBiFreq | 11223.65 | 6373.38 | 12941.12 | 5263.13 | 12465.65 | 7565.91 |
| Length in letters | 5.57 | 1.51 | 5.95 | 1.16 | 5.52 | 1.51 |
| Length in syllables | 1.63 | 0.69 | 1.83 | 0.64 | - | - |
| Length in phonemes | 4 | 1.55 | 4.68 | 1.07 | 4.5 | 1.6 |
| Orthographic neighborhood | 1.87 | 3.01 | 2.55 | 3.25 | 3.03 | 2.29 |
| Phonological neighborhood | 8.75 | 9.50 | 5.95 | 7.21 | - | - |
| Homographs | 1.18 | 0.43 | 1.27 | 0.66 | - | - |
| Homophones | 3.73 | 3.13 | 3.00 | 1.89 | - | - |
Word written frequency is on one million tokens; Imageability is given as seven-point subjective ratings; Homographs: number of homograph words; Homophones: number of homophone words; SumTypeBiFreq, length in letters, syllables and phonemes, orthographic neighborhood, phonological neighborhood, homographs and homophones are reported as absolute values. SumTypeBiFreq, summed-type bigram frequency.