Lingua Sinica

Table 4 Stimulus characteristics of the visual target words

From: Exhaustive semantic activation for reading ambiguous verbs in Chinese sentences

	Target groups
Prime types	Low-ROM verbs				High-ROM verbs				Unambiguous verbs
Meaning	Primary		Secondary		Primary		Secondary		Unambiguous verbs
Experimental/Control	Exp	Control	Exp	Control	Exp	Control	Exp	Control	Exp	Control
Word frequency	90.63	86.94	68.25	67.38	131.13	133.13	108.31	105.75	139.38	133.94
1^st character frequency	405.31	451.81	709.88	1424.06	765.31	1141.56	364.31	155.38	600.00	494.56
2^nd character frequency	581.94	346.69	698.06	3258.63	1101.31	333.31	2665.63	500.69	839.25	525.63
Number of strokes	22.81	24.25	22.50	22.50	22.00	24.44	20.44	22.63	21.44	22.44
Relatedness with prime (1–7)	5.84	2.27	5.03	2.21	5.82	2.17	5.41	2.18	5.93	2.36
Isolated LDT RT (ms)	565.50	566.69	580.71	577.66	554.41	541.18	544.20	549.90	549.26	553.05

Note. Isolated LDT RT refers to the mean reaction times of target words in isolated lexical decision tasks

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