Table 1. Characteristics of the three categories of words.
A. Characteristics of the three selected categories of words in terms of psycholinguistic dimensions. B. Comparisons between the three selected categories of words in terms of psycholinguistic dimensions.
| Category | Concreteness | Imageability | Familiarity | Age of acquisition | Context availability | Abstractness | Modality of acquisition | Number of letters | Emotional value | Frequency | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (A) | |||||||||||
| Abstract | Mean | 232.28 | 261.37 | 441.27 | 469.27 | 357.96 | 530.64 | 566.43 | 9.25 | 2.90 | 70.25 |
| N | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | |
| SD | 35.59 | 70.18 | 57.45 | 65.23 | 59.05 | 60.75 | 62.60 | 2.79 | .57 | 63.28 | |
| Concrete | Mean | 660.08 | 653.70 | 438.80 | 276.74 | 600.97 | 132.47 | 289.23 | 6.25 | 1.63 | 20.56 |
| N | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | |
| SD | 30.90 | 47.99 | 57.32 | 81.84 | 57.96 | 28.53 | 91.12 | 1.65 | .18 | 15.40 | |
| Emotional | Mean | 321.49 | 346.32 | 438.57 | 395.73 | 436.12 | 446.51 | 483.73 | 8.13 | 5.20 | 82.69 |
| N | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | |
| SD | 31.54 | 50.12 | 75.30 | 66.83 | 59.57 | 34.14 | 74.25 | 2.19 | .52 | 61.92 | |
| Total | Mean | 404.62 | 420.47 | 439.55 | 380.58 | 465.02 | 369.87 | 446.46 | 7.88 | 3.24 | 57.83 |
| N | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | |
| SD | 188.96 | 179.21 | 62.56 | 106.52 | 117.45 | 178.31 | 139.46 | 2.54 | 1.56 | 57.56 | |