Table 1 Linguistic features of the action and neutral texts.

Characters^a

696

743

693

668

0.241^#

Words

167

169

164

153

0.816^#

Nouns

33

25

28

22

0.485^#

Adjectives

6

14

5

14

0.058^#

Adverbs

6

16

9

10

0.161^#

Verbs

32

32

32

31

0.999 ^#

Action verbs

25 (78.1%)

11 (34.4%)

25 (78.1%)

9 (29%)

0.004 ^#

Non-action verbs

7 (21.9%)

21 (65.6%)

7 (21.9%)

22 (71%)

0.002 ^#

Mean content word frequency^b,c

803

974.6

926.4

1014

0.857*

Mean content word familiarity^b,d

593.2

582.4

598.6

598.3

0.419*

Mean content word imageability^b,e

442.8

394.9

440.2

399.1

0.060*

Mean content word syllabic length^b

1.3

1.5

1.3

1.4

0.156*

Mean content word orthographic length^b

4.8

5.1

4.8

4.8

0.680*

Sentences

17

17

17

17

0.999^#

Minor sentences

0

0

0

0

0.999^#

Sentences with parataxis only

3

3

3

5

0.835^#

Sentences with hypotaxis only

4

3

3

1

0.630^#

Sentences with parataxis and hypotaxis

3

3

4

2

0.881^#

Comprehensibility

3.9

3.6

3.25

4

0.619*

Coherence

3.7

3.6

2.75

4

0.471*

PSKF

4.4

4.55

4.22

4.39

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SRI

3

2.8

3.5

2.7

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