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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Mar 27.
Published in final edited form as: Discourse Process. 2023 Mar 27;60(2):141–161. doi: 10.1080/0163853x.2023.2185408

Table 2.

Results of the linear mixed effects model predicting distance between verbs.

Predictor Estimate SE t value P

Intercept 348.10 6.16 56.55 <.001***
Levenshtein Distance 2.68 0.25 10.53 <.001***
LSA Similarity −46.64 3.74 −12.48 <.001***
Clause Distance 0.26 0.03 8.86 <.001***
Shared Sentence 9.68 4.12 2.35 .02*
Shared Space 6.97 1.45 4.80 <.001***
Shared Time −4.96 1.96 −2.53 .01*
Shared Entity 8.21 2.71 3.03 .002**
Shared Cause 1.67 2.32 0.72 .47
Shared Goal −8.90 1.46 −6.11 <.001***
Shared Event −8.16 1.78 −4.58 <.001***

Note: We dummy coded the categorical predictors and centered the continuous predictors at their means before entering them into the analyses. The estimates are unstandardized weights, showing a change in Euclidean distances based on a single unit of change in the predictor.

*

p < .05

**

p < .01

***

p < .001