Table 1.
Psycholinguistic properties of the 134 stimulus items
| Category | SUBTLEX word frequency |
No. of syllables | No. of phonological neighbors |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean (SD) | Median (range) | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | Median (range) | |
| All words | |||||
| Animals | 8 (10) | 6.1 (49.9) | 1.5 (0.6) | 12.3 (10.1) | 9 (45) |
| Clothes | 9.8 (15.8) | 4.2 (67.2) | 1.5 (0.5) | 11.7 (10) | 8 (41) |
| Foods | 5.7 (9.2) | 2 (39.6) | 1.5 (0.5) | 12.2 (11) | 9 (39) |
| Tools | 9.4 (8.8) | 6.8 (37.5) | 1.6 (0.6) | 11.9 (8.2) | 11 (33) |
| All | 8.3 (11.4) | 4.8 (67.3) | 1.5 (0.5) | 12 (9.8) | 9 (46) |
| Monosyllabic words | |||||
| Animals | 11.1 (12.8) | 7.5 (49.4) | 19.1 (9.6) | 18 (39) | |
| Clothes | 17.6 (19.6) | 11.6 (65.3) | 17.9 (10.2) | 17 (35) | |
| Foods | 8.7 (12.3) | 2.2 (39.5) | 21.3 (9.0) | 21 (29) | |
| Tools | 13.7 (10.5) | 10.8 (35.7) | 16.9 (7.4) | 15 (26) | |
| All | 12.8 (14.4) | 7.8 (67.1) | 18.8 (9.1) | 18 (39) | |
| Bisyllabic words | |||||
| Animals | 5.4 (12.8) | 2.9 (18.7) | 6.1 (5.5) | 4.0 (21) | |
| Clothes | 2.5 (19.6) | 1 (19.1) | 5.8 (5.3) | 3.5 (15) | |
| Foods | 2.9 (12.3) | 1.9 (10.1) | 3.6 (2.8) | 3 (9) | |
| Tools | 5.1 (10.5) | 5 (11.5) | 8.0 (5.9) | 7 (24) | |
| All | 3.9 (14.4) | 2 (19.2) | 5.8 (5.1) | 4 (26) | |