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Published in final edited form as: J Acoust Soc Am. 1999 Oct;106(4 Pt 1):2074–2085. doi: 10.1121/1.427952

TABLE IV.

Correlations between spoken word recognition accuracy, word familiarity ratings, and demographic variables. Numbers in parentheses refer to the range for each variable.

	Word recognition		Familiarity ratings
	Easy (60%–89%)	Hard (25%–74%)	Easy (3.95–7.00)	Hard (3.69–7.00)
Age of English study onset (4–23 yrs)	+0.09	−0.22	+0.04	−0.61^b
No. of years of English study(<1–18)	+0.11	+0.28	+0.17	+0.37
No. of years in English environment (<1–8)	+0.37	+0.45^a	+0.04	+0.12

p<0.05.

p<0.005.