Table 3.
Generalized logistic mixed-effects model predicting irregular word successful reading using psycholinguistic variables
B | SE B | z | |
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Control variables | |||
Length (number of letters) | 0.39 | 0.25 | 1.54 |
Frequency (log10) | 0.84 | 0.45 | 1.89 |
Orthographic neighborhood (OLD20) | −0.19 | 0.50 | −0.39 |
Bigram frequencies by position (log) | −0.88 | 0.37 | −2.40 |
Lexicosemantic variables | |||
Age of Acquisition | −0.42 | 0.07 | −5.62 |
Concreteness | −0.07 | 0.16 | −0.46 |
Number of senses (log) | 0.17 | 0.25 | 0.69 |
Semantic neighborhood density | 2.40 | 1.41 | 1.70 |
Phonological variables | |||
Number of syllables | −0.52 | 0.30 | −1.71 |
Number of phonemes | 0.48 | 0.32 | 1.49 |
Phonological neighborhood (PLD20) | −0.55 | 0.44 | −1.24 |
Note. z values beyond 1.96 in absolute values are deemed as significant (Baayen, 2008).