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. 2021 Jun 25;11:13343. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-92726-7

Table 3.

Lexical properties of each category.

Lexical properties Fish TM MM Bird
Number of characters 3.0 (0.9) 2.9 (0.7) 3.5 (0.9) 3.0 (0.8)
Number of morae 2.9 (0.9) 2.9 (0.7) 3.3 (0.9) 2.9 (0.6)
Familiarity 5.9 (0.4) 6.0 (0.3) 5.7 (0.6) 6.0 (0.3)
Frequency (per million words) 3.4 (3.4) 15.3 (18.3) 1.7 (2.8) 6.5 (5.6)

Mean (SD). TM: terrestrial mammal; MM: marine mammal.