Table 1. Neural coding of consonants in noise predicts preschooler’s phonological processing.

These model parameters are applied in Experiments 2–4.

Predictor	ΔR 2	β
Step 1	0.196 ‡
Sex a		-0.076
Age		0.390*
Non-verbal IQ		0.114
Step 2	0.488
Sex		-0.162
Age		0.452**
Non-verbal IQ		0.351*
Neural timing
Peak 21		0.420**
Peak 31		-0.332‡
Peak 41		-0.055
Peak 51		-0.117
Spectral features
H4		0.120
H5		-0.514**
H6		0.052
H7		0.300*
Neural stability		0.266
Total R2	0.848 ‡

^aDummy-coded, males = 0, females = 1.

^‡ p < 0.10

*p < 0.05

** p < 0.01