Table 2.
Lexical characteristics of the English stimuli by condition
| Semantically Unrelated | Semantically Related | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phonologically Unrelated | Phonologically Related | t-test | Phonologically Unrelated | Phonologically Related | t-test | |
| Semantic Similarity Rating (1 – 7) | 1.25 (.66) | 1.36 (.71) | n.s. | 5.40 (.60) | 5.39 (.61) | n.s. |
| Word length (# letters) | 5.7 (1.8) | 5.9 (2.2) | n.s. | 5.8 (2.2) | 6.1 (2.3) | n.s. |
| HAL Log Frequency | 9.8 (1.7) | 9.9 (1.6) | n.s. | 10.1 (1.6) | 9.9 (1.7) | n.s. |