Table 8.

Regression Analyses of Reading Times in Experiment 1 As a Function of Frequency, Plausibility, Predictability, Ambiguity, and transitivity

	Reading Span
	High		Medium		Low
Region	β	t	β	t	β	t
Prepositional Phrase
Base frequency	−.01	−0.14	.04	0.48	−.08	−0.82
Past-participle frequency	.04	0.52	−.08	−0.67	−.04	−0.39
Past-tense frequency	−.01	−0.11	−.15	−1.34	−.16	−1.42
Ambiguity	.20	2.92**	.34	3.19**	.17	1.72†
RC continuation	−.24	−3.06**	−.19	−1.72†	.03	0.28
Theme plausibility	−.54	−7.82**	.05	0.49	−.01	−0.05
Agent plausibility	.34	4.20**	.17	1.75†	−.02	−0.15
Transitivity	.01	0.13	.07	0.85	−.00	−0.00
Sentence Final
Base frequency	.06	0.77	−.00	−0.01	−.02	−0.27
Past-participle frequency	.09	0.86	.15	1.42	.12	1.15
Past-tense frequency	.05	0.53	.12	1.11	.09	0.82
Ambiguity	.07	0.83	.36	4.04**	.37	4.08**
RC continuation	−.18	−1.86†	−.19	−1.84†	−.22	−2.14*
Theme plausibility	−.43	−4.95**	−.15	−1.43	−.04	−0.46
Agent plausibility	.17	1.66†	−.00	−0.04	.14	1.37
Transitivity	−.02	−0.12	−.05	−0.52	−.00	−0.01

Note—RC, relative clause.

^†p < .10.

^*p < .05.

^**p < .01.