Table 2.
Details of the frequency, age of acquisition (AoA) and imageability for the verbs used in the experiment. Frequencies are presented for the Bird et al.’s (2001) analysis of Baayen et al., (1995) CELEX database labeled Bird, Brown’s (1984) verbal frequencies labeled BVF, and Kucera and Francis’ (1967) written frequencies labeled KFWF. Scores are as described in Table 1
| VERBS | FREQUENCY | AoA | IMAGABILITY | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bird | BVF | KFWF | Bird | MRC | Bird | MRC | |
| CRY | 1.4681 | - | 48 | 159 | - | 619 | 478 |
| DANCE | 1.566 | 4 | 90 | 295 | - | 553 | 510 |
| DIG | 1.6021 | - | 10 | 230 | - | - | - |
| DRINK | 2.0153 | 25 | 82 | 166 | 211 | 573 | 553 |
| EAT | 2.4617 | 9 | 61 | 167 | - | - | 563 |
| FLY | 1.552 | 2 | 33 | 200 | - | 627 | 582 |
| JUMP | - | - | 24 | - | 222 | - | 506 |
| KNIT | - | - | 10 | - | - | - | - |
| PAINT | 1.8561 | 22 | 37 | 238 | - | 585 | 567 |
| RUN | - | 22 | 212 | - | - | - | - |
| SKATE | 0.4284 | - | 1 | 357 | - | 562 | 563 |
| SKIP | 0.9727 | - | 5 | 288 | - | - | - |
| SLEEP | 2.11 | 7 | 65 | 193 | - | - | 530 |
| SMILE | 1.9197 | 4 | 58 | 215 | 208 | 595 | 615 |
| SNEEZE | - | - | - | - | - | - | 562 |
| STAMP | 1.2214 | - | 8 | 269 | - | 494 | - |
| STRETCH | 1.8296 | 1 | 26 | 387 | - | - | - |
| SWIM | 0.9646 | 1 | 15 | 275 | 256 | 612 | 572 |
| SWING | 1.7476 | 1 | 24 | 237 | - | - | - |
| WAVE | 1.6572 | 2 | 46 | 213 | - | - | 542 |