Table 2.
Error Rate and Mean Reaction Time (RT) Correlations and Partial Correlations
| Correlations
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Partial Correlations
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| Error
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RT
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Error
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RT
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| Variable | LD | SC | LD | SC | LD | SC | LD | SC |
| Control variable | ||||||||
| Ln(FreqHAL) | −.32*** | −.20*** | −.59*** | −.39*** | ||||
| No. letters | .03 | .01 | .33*** | .21*** | ||||
| No. phonemes | .05 | −.02 | .31*** | .16*** | ||||
| No. syllables | .13*** | .03 | .34*** | .19*** | ||||
| Bigram f | −.06 | .02 | −.24*** | −.07 | ||||
| Coltheart’s N | −.10** | −.02 | −.30*** | −.14*** | ||||
| No. features | −.14*** | .02 | −.23*** | −.20*** | ||||
| Basic feature-based measures of SND | ||||||||
| NumNear | .15*** | .12*** | .22*** | .14*** | .08* | .08* | .09** | .03 |
| MeanCos | .07 | .03 | .11** | −.02 | .01 | −.03 | .04 | −.09** |
| PropCorrPairs | .04 | .12*** | .06 | .08* | .03 | .10** | .03 | .07 |
| Association-based measure of SND | ||||||||
| NumAssoc | −.06 | .02 | −.20*** | −.12** | .09* | .10** | −.04 | .01 |
| Co-occurrence-based measures of | ||||||||
| SND | ||||||||
| COALS | .03 | .15*** | .03 | .05 | .02 | .11*** | −.09** | .01 |
| COALS_all | −.03 | .12*** | −.17*** | −.01 | .05 | .19*** | −.04 | .12** |
Note. LD = lexical decision; SC = living-thing semantic categorization; HAL = Hyperspace Analogue to Language; SND = semantic neighborhood density; NumNear = number of near neighbors; MeanCos = mean cosine; PropCorrPairs = proportion of significantly correlated feature pairs; NumAssoc = number of associates; COALS = Correlated Occurrence Analogue to Lexical Semantic, mean distance within set; COALS_all = mean distance among all items.
*
p < .10.
**
p < .05.
***
p < .01.