Table 2.

Word characteristics, means and SDs.

	English			Spanish
	Nouns (N = 87)	Verbs (N = 76)	Nouns/Verbs (N = 237)	Nouns (N = 218)	Verbs (N = 182)
Word frequency	104.7 (112.7)	189.8 (747.2)	142.4 (308.9)	99.7 (145.6)	62.5 (161.2)
Word length	6.14 (2.3)	5.3 (1.8)	4.7 (1.4)	6.28 (2.0)	6.5 (1.6)
Number of translations	1.9 (1.2)	2.0 (1.2)	2.8 (1.6)	1.7 (1.1)	2.2 (1.6)
Context availability	5.3 (0.7)	5.2 (0.6)	5.3 (0.6)	5.4 (0.7)	5.2 (0.6)
Concreteness	4.6 (1.3)	3.6 (0.7)	4.5 (1.1)	4.8 (1.1)	4.1 (0.9)
Form similarity	2.8 (3.7)	1.0 (2.5)	1.5 (2.9)	2.3 (3.4)	1.0 (2.4)

Notes: Word frequency is measured in occurrences per million. Word length in letters. Context availability was rated on a scale of 1–10, and concreteness on a scale of 1–7; cognate rating was on a scale of 1–10.