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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Appl Psycholinguist. 2012 Aug 10;35(1):27–70. doi: 10.1017/S0142716412000252

Table 10.

Estimated coefficients from the multilevel model analyses of duration data from the German-English L2 learners in L2 English (standard errors in parentheses)

Verb DO

Coefficient t Coefficient t
(Intercept) 345 (19.4) 17.75**** 504 (20.9) 24.07****
Syllable 139 (23.5) 5.91**** 110 (19.7) 5.58****
Speech rate −48 (16.5) −2.92** −44 (20.8) −2.10*
Condition 15 (8.2) 1.81 13 (10.0) 1.27

Prep. phrase with

Coefficient t Coefficient t
(Intercept) 1075 (29.1) 36.96**** 157 (4.9) 31.92****
Syllable 149 (10.9) 13.63****
Speech rate −104 (30.8) −3.37** −17 (4.3) −3.48***
Condition −83 (18.4) −4.53**** 9 (4.9) 2.09*

Syllable refers to the number of syllables in the target word (as there was no difference in syllable length on the preposition with, this cell has been left blank). Condition refers to attachment type (NP- vs. VP-attachment). Speech rate refers to L2 speech rate.

*

p < .05

**

p < .01

***

p < .001

****

p < .0001