Table 5. .

Summary of corpora measures across parts of speech for Study 3.

Language	Part of Speech	No. Tokens	No. Types	Word Frequency	Error Rate	α	β	Pearson’s-r
British English	nouns	1,088,319	17,555	(1 – 17,274)	0.084	1.53	75.52	0.926
	verbs	796,976	3,978	(1 – 46,170)	0.037	1.74	9.93	0.992
	adjectives	226,907	1,987	(1 – 19,925)	0.083	1.6	7.13	0.962
	prepositions	341,910	74	(2 – 58,821)	0.75	8.59	33.97	0.985
German	nouns	116,944	10,951	(1 – 13,086)	0.098	0.9	−0.41	0.934
	verbs	56,399	2,660	(1 – 2,986)	0.136	1.54	8.09	0.992
	adjectives	28,388	1,259	(1 – 2,628)	0.36	1.58	8.81	0.962
	prepositions	31,724	38	(1 – 5,817)	0.957	49.77	265.13	0.986
French	nouns	169,214	7,305	(1 – 3,347)	0.102	1.35	37.54	0.947
	verbs	189,203	3,844	(1 – 18,234)	0.034	1.46	4.33	0.995
	adjectives	28,517	1,349	(1 – 4,240)	0.017	1.42	3.62	0.927
	prepositions	69,489	46	(1 – 15,717)	0.92	115.07	476.04	–
Spanish	nouns	39,155	3,446	(1 – 1,099)	0.075	1.15	11.85	0.974
	verbs	42,059	2,556	(1 – 1,514)	0.006	1.32	8.56	0.991
	adjectives	6,320	716	(1 – 426)	0.0491	1.39	12.06	0.946
	prepositions	12,672	17	(1 – 4552)	0.77	129.8	235.1	–
Hebrew	nouns	43,294	2,543	(1 – 2,309)	0.25	1.17	9.47	0.921
	verbs	27,161	2,705	(1 – 1,038)	0.067	1.19	11.89	0.966
	adjectives	6,915	671	(1 – 281)	0.203	1.54	16.32	0.995
	prepositions	23,537	172	(1 – 3,519)	0.687	4.2	18.74	0.986
Summary			nouns	Mean (SD)		1.22 (0.24)	26.8 (30.6)	0.94 (0.02)
			verbs	Mean (SD)		1.45 (0.21)	8.56 (2.79)	0.99 (0.01)
			adjectives	Mean (SD)		1.5 (0.1)	9.59 (4.84)	0.96 (0.025)
			prepositions	Mean (SD)		61.5 (58.6) 20.9 (25.1)*	205.8 (188.4) 105.9 (138.1)*	0.99 (0.002)*

^*Measured only on English, German and Hebrew.