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Table 1. Main psycholinguistic properties of the stimuli used

From: Rapid acquisition of novel written word-forms: ERP evidence

 

Novel Words

Known Words

t (46) value

p value

Lexical frequency

0

57.78 (103.99)

–

–

Number of syllables

2 (0)

2 (0)

0

1

Number of letters

5.50 (0.51)

5.50 (0.51)

0

1

Number of orthographic Neighbors

1.42 (1.31)

1.46 (1.21)

− 0.11

0.91

Bigram frequency (token type)

518.92 (285.91)

601.7 (350.51)

− 0.89

0.37

Mean (1st and 2nd) Syllable Frequency

2046.83 (3150.97)

2108.54 (2997.74)

− 0.07

0.94

  1. Stimuli were maximally matched between the experimental conditions. Standard deviation is shown in brackets. Independent-samples t-tests confirmed no differences between novel and known words across the variables
  2. Novel words used in the study: cofín, dorna, fudre, bruño, gelfe, nabla, notro, pajel, paila, sisón, cuatí, facón, dolmán, puntel, reitre, roblón, runcho, seisén, holmio, trujal, jínjol, pambil, timple, carmes; Known words: color, toldo, valle, traje, golfo, bicho, litro, papel, nieve, mujer, baile, gafas, balcón, doctor, huella, millón, rastro, violín, garfio, crimen, cactus, césped, templo, pintor.