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. 2016 May 31;7:798. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00798

Table 5.

Regression coefficients from item-level regression analyses for standardized reading and past tense generation latencies, Experiments 3a and 3b.

Variable B SEB β sr R2 Δ R2
Experiment 3a (Verb reading
Step 1 (Onsets) 0.19∗∗∗ 0.19∗∗∗
Step 2 (Control variables) 0.44∗∗∗ 0.25∗∗∗
    Frequency -0.05 0.01 -0.35 -0.33***
    PLD 0.12 0.02 0.29 0.26***
    Phonological consistency -0.01 0.02 -0.02 -0.02
Step 3 (Semantic variables) 0.49∗∗∗ 0.05∗∗∗
    Regularity 0.02 0.04 0.03 0.02
    Age of acquisition (AoA) 0.02 0.01 0.22 0.12**
    Valence -0.00 0.01 -0.01 -0.01
    Arousal -0.01 0.01 -0.03 -0.02
    Semantic diversity (SemD) 0.11 0.05 0.10 0.07
    Embodiment -0.00 0.01 -0.02 -0.01
    Age of acquisition × Regularity -0.03 0.02 -0.12 -0.05
    Valence × Regularity 0.03 0.02 0.06 0.04
     Arousal × Regularity 0.02 0.04 0.02 0.02
    Semantic diversity × Regularity -0.07 0.12 -0.03 -0.02
    Embodiment × Regularity 0.03 0.03 0.05 0.04
Experiment 3b (Past tense generation)
Step 1 (Onsets) 0.19∗∗∗ 0.19∗∗∗
Step 2 (Control variables) 0.32∗∗∗ 0.13∗∗∗
    Frequency 0.03 0.01 0.15 0.14**
    PLD -0.15 0.03 -0.27 -0.25***
    Phonological consistency 0.12 0.03 0.16 0.16***
Step 3 (Semantic variables) 0.54∗∗∗ 0.22∗∗∗
    Regularity 0.41 0.06 0.46 0.26***
    Age of acquisition (AoA) 0.01 0.01 0.05 0.03
    Valence -0.00 0.01 -0.00 -0.00
    Arousal -0.01 0.02 -0.03 -0.02
    Semantic diversity (SemD) -0.01 0.07 -0.01 -0.01
    Embodiment 0.02 0.02 0.07 0.04
    Age of acquisition × Regularity -0.04 0.02 -0.13 -0.06
    Valence × Regularity -0.00 0.03 -0.00 -0.00
    Arousal × Regularity 0.05 0.05 0.05 0.04
    Semantic diversity × Regularity 0.30 0.15 0.10 0.08*
    Embodiment × Regularity -0.03 0.03 -0.04 -0.03

PLD, phonological Levenshtein distance. p < 0.05; ∗∗p < 0.01; ∗∗∗p < 0.001.