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. 2015 Jun;58(3):987–1000. doi: 10.1044/2015_JSLHR-H-14-0135

Table 3.

Correlations between spoken vocabulary size and phonotactic probability, neighborhood density, and word frequency.

Subjects Phonotactic probability: Segment sum Phonotactic probability: Biphone sum Neighborhood density Word frequency
Age not partialled out
 All children .25 .46** −0.39** −0.29*
 Unilateral .08 .29 −0.24 −0.28
 Bilateral .54* .67** −0.58* −0.31
Age partialled out
#x2003;All children .14 .37* −0.25 −0.18
 Unilateral .01 .21 −0.12 −0.19
 Bilateral .40 .65** −0.47* 0.14
*

Significant at .05 level, one-tailed.

**

Significant at .01 level, one-tailed.