Research Article

The Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Priming Effect of Part of Speech Representation

Table 2

Three English proficiency groups’ percentage of part of speech prime judgement consistency.

ExperimentISI condition (ms)Part of speechEnglish proficiency
Low (N = 30)Medium (N = 30)High (N = 30)

Experiment one50Noun0.465 (0.11)0.444 (0.16)0.387 (0.09)
Verb0.493 (0.16)0.538 (0.18)0.692 (0.09)
Non-word0.016 (0.02)0.016 (0.09)0.054 (0.07)
500Noun0.458 (0.17)0.371 (0.20)0.508 (0.11)
Verb0.253 (0.20)0.479 (0.20)0.675 (0.12)
Non-word0.041 (0.08)0.037 (0.08)0.041 (0.08)

Experiment two50Abstract noun0.503 (0.18)0.368 (0.12)0.467 (0.16)
Adjective0.313 (0.20)0.447 (0.20)0.587 (0.16)
Non-word0.007 (0.02)0.007 (0.02)0.067 (0.01)
500Abstract noun0.373 (0.11)0.340 (0.20)0.471 (0.11)
Adjective0.424 (0.20)0.507 (0.20)0.550 (0.20)
Non-word0.012 (0.03)0.003 (0.01)0.012 (0.03)