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The Special Role of Higher-Frequency Neighbors at the Phonological Level: An Event-Related Potential Study of Chinese Character Naming

Table 2

Stimulus characteristics in with- and without-HFN conditions.
 Without HFNWith HFN -test
 Mean (SD)Mean (SD)
Number of neighbors8.00 (2.89)7.92 (3.41)ns
Frequency11.00 (7.72)10.39 (6.28)ns
Stroke10.33 (2.07)9.46 (1.86)ns
Consistency level0.30 (0.13)0.30 (0.17)ns
HFN: higher-frequency neighbor. Frequency values are occurrences per million. ns: nonsignificant.