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. 2016 May 17;7:703. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00703

Table 6.

Unique variance predicted by word frequency, contextual diversity, and semantic distinctiveness for young/old monolinguals and bilinguals.

Corpus Group Effect (ΔR2 in %)

WF CD SD
TASA Mono young 2.11 5.43 * 9.85**
Bil young 0.0 3.23 11.46***
Mono old 1.2 5.84 12.15***
Bil old 0.28 9.03** 21.46***
Wiki Mono young 0.8 2.01 7.22*
Bil young 1.98 6.95 14.9**
Mono old 0 3.33 13.75**
Bil old 0.47 5.607 18.23**
Fiction Mono young 0.0 1.273 12.101**
Bil young 1.73 0.0 17.86***
Mono old 0.29 1.15 17.01***
Bil old 0.0 4.61* 31.71***
Non-fiction Mono young 4.95 8.02* 12.615**
Bil young 3.514 6.38* 15.974***
Mono old 11.803** 18.68*** 23.27***
Bil old 5.43 15.48** 30.67***
Mix Mono young 3.61 5.12* 7.22*
Bil young 0.3 2.41 9.71**
Mono old 4.74* 10.02** 13.46***
Bil old 0.32 7.66* 22.36***

N = 150, P < 0.05, ∗∗P < 0.01, ∗∗∗P < 0.001.