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.