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Table 12 Artificial object nouns used in Experiments 1A and 1B

From: Language play facilitates language learning: Optimizing the input for gender-like category induction

Item number

Object noun

Number of phonemes

Summated bigram frequency

1

elom

4

7787

2

teos

4

8214

3

riun

4

10,290

4

unak

4

9259

5

etef

4

10,409

6

ilil

4

7599

7

deluf

5

11,848

8

eitak

4

16,832

9

besak

5

11,047

10

refam

5

10,431

11

gunal

5

12,615

12

jetem

5

10,741

13

gitun

5

13,482

14

lelop

5

11,810

15

urets

5

12,582

16

osret

5

11,122

17

ketiz

6

10,727

18

atunz

6

12,051

19

filan

5

1438

20

molun

5

10,379

21

tekes

5

14,104

22

geop

4

6572

23

tetak

5

13,261

24

inut

4

7084

25

melam

5

12,564

26

witim

5

11,101

27

akest

5

13,904

28

rebif

5

10,397

29

unol

4

8837

30

noref

5

11,274

31

astop

5

10,505

32

imres

5

11,300

33

abun

4

8898

34

runot

5

10,805

35

elwan

5

11,828

36

nelun

5

16,103

  1. Items 31 to 36 (novel-new object nouns) were not used during the training procedure. Items 25 to 30 (novel-old object nouns) were only used during the vocabulary training and vocabulary review, but not during the syntax training