This data set gathered from appendix A includes 96 English words of differing syllabic structure. Source words are either regular or exception words that have either high or low frequency and imageability.

sps1995a

Format

A data.frame with 96 rows and 4 variables:

ortho

The orthographic word.

frequency

Word frequency bin: H (high) or L (low).

regularity

Spelling regularity bin: R (regular) or E (exception).

imageability

Imageability bin: H (high) or L (low).

Source

Strain, E., Patterson, K., & Seidenberg, M. S. (1995). Semantic effects in single-word naming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 21(5), 1140-1154. doi:10.1037/0278-7393.21.5.1140

Details

See source paper for details.

See also

sps1995b