Table 2.
Item characteristics for words (W), pseudohomophones (PsH), and nonwords (NW).
| W |
PsH |
NW |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | F | p | |
| No. of letters | 5.54 | 1.61 | 5.71 | 1.74 | 5.54 | 1.61 | 0.30 | .742 |
| Log bigram-frequency | ||||||||
| childLex corpus | 5.19 | 5.06 | 5.16 | 5.11 | 5.13 | 4.99 | 0.57 | .568 |
| childLex lexicon | 5.61 | 5.50 | 5.58 | 5.54 | 5.56 | 5.43 | 0.45 | .641 |
| Log trigram-frequency | ||||||||
| childLex corpus | 4.25 | 4.28 | 4.19 | 4.32 | 4.12 | 4.22 | 1.29 | .277 |
| childLex lexicon | 4.72 | 4.79 | 4.69 | 4.87 | 4.59 | 4.73 | 0.92 | .399 |
Note. The corpus based bigram- and trigram-frequencies refer to the number of occurrences per million tokens in the corpus of the database childLex, whereas the lexicon based frequencies refer to the number of occurrences per million types.