Table 2.
Psycholinguistic characteristics of the stimuli used for the definition task.
| ABS | CONC | EMO | FREQ | IMA | FAM | AoA | MoA | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abstract words | 432 (69) | 305 (71) | 3.2 (1.1) | 89 (104) | 390 (141) | 534 (82) | 326 (70) | 46 (81) | 7.2 (0.8) |
| Concrete words | 124 (30) | 676 (27) | 2.0 (0.6) | 28 (13) | 668 (17) | 562 (75) | 251 (48) | 226 (73) | 7.3 (1.8) |
| Emotional words | 410 (128) | 367 (148) | 5.7 (0.3) | 113 (173) | 445 (117) | 595 (63) | 267 (70) | 369 (96) | 6.2 (1.6) |
ABS, abstractness; CONC, concreteness; EMO, words emotionality; FREQ, written word frequency; IMA, imageability; FAM, familiarity; AoA, word age of acquisition; MoA, concept mode of acquisition; Length, word length in letters. Mean values and standard deviation are provided (in bracket).