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. 2012 Nov 9;3:481. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00481

Table A2.

Interactions between post-verbal constituent order and phonological overlap on speech rate by sentence region.

Effect Theme-last
Theme-last: subject-verb
Theme-last: verb-theme
Theme-last: subject-verb: verb-theme
Region β^ t p β^ t p β^ t p β^ t p
Pre-subject −0.01 −0.1 −0.02 −0.8 −0.04 −1.5 0.04 0.7
Pre-verb −0.01 −0.5 0.01 0.2 0.03 1.4 0.02 0.5
Pre-theme 0.22 12.2 <0.0001 0.01 0.1 −0.01 −0.5 −0.04 −0.6
Pre-recipient 0.20 9.9 <0.0001 0.01 0.1 −0.04 −1.3 0.09 1.3

The only significant effects were found for the pre-theme and pre-recipient region. For both regions, speech rates were higher for the theme-last order, paralleling the effect found for fluency in the pre-recipient region (i.e., fewer disfluencies in the theme-last order). Bold indicates the significant effects.