Lexical criteria | | | | | | |
No. of syllablesa | 2.24 (0.87) | 2.24 (0.75) | 2.24 (0.79) | 1 | 1 | 1 |
No. of lettersa | 6.91 (1.95) | 6.89 (1.82) | 7.03 (2.14) | 0.97 | 0.72 | 0.68 |
No. of phonemesa | 5.83 (1.86) | 5.71 (1.64) | | 0.68 | | |
No. of orthographic neighboursa | 1.94 (4.16) | 2.12 (3.91) | | 0.81 | | |
No. of phonological neighboursa | 4.39 (9.76) | 4.93 (8.80) | | 0.72 | | |
Including homophonesa | 4.73 (10.38) | 5.16 (9.46) | | 0.79 | | |
No. of phonographic neighboursa | 1.01 (2.57) | 1.19 (2.65) | | 0.68 | | |
Including homophonesa | 1.08 (2.84) | 1.33 (2.73) | | 0.58 | | |
Word frequency: Zipfb | 3.88 (0.70) | 3.80 (0.61) | | 0.46 | | |
Age of acquisitionc | 7.53 (1.98) | 7.40 (2.12) | | 0.70 | | |
Emotional constructs | | | | | | |
Valenced | 5.79 (1.11) | 5.73 (1.07) | | 0.74 | | |
No. of positive wordsd,e | 60 (80%) | 62 (83%) | | 0.86 | | |
Hedonic valenced,f | 1.15 (0.73) | 1.09 (0.69) | | 0.62 | | |
Arousald | 4.16 (0.96) | 4.10 (0.95) | | 0.68 | | |
Imagery | | | | | | |
Concretenessg | 4.67 (0.19) | 4.67 (0.24) | | 0.87 | | |
Imageabilityh | 4.44 (0.26) | 4.41 (0.32) | | 0.57 | | |