Table 2. Semantic categories, difference of mean within group and outside-group similarity, p-value, and number of words in a category, using the similarity matrix derived from the L2L weight matrix estimated from the British National Corpus.
Category | Difference | p-value | number of words |
---|---|---|---|
dessert | -0.040 | 0.050 | 12 |
times | -0.031 | 0.384 | 11 |
plants | -0.026 | 0.157 | 13 |
bathroom | 0.032 | 0.051 | 19 |
clothing | 0.036 | p < 0.001 | 37 |
games | 0.042 | 0.257 | 6 |
toys | 0.060 | p < 0.001 | 23 |
bird | 0.065 | p < 0.001 | 22 |
meat | 0.066 | p < 0.001 | 15 |
fruit | 0.069 | p < 0.001 | 19 |
body | 0.075 | p < 0.001 | 64 |
tools | 0.077 | p < 0.001 | 24 |
space | 0.098 | 0.002 | 12 |
numbers | 0.102 | p < 0.001 | 27 |
insect | 0.110 | p < 0.001 | 15 |
mammal | 0.112 | p < 0.001 | 52 |
drink | 0.116 | p < 0.001 | 14 |
kitchen | 0.120 | p < 0.001 | 25 |
family | 0.122 | p < 0.001 | 33 |
electronics | 0.127 | 0.000 | 17 |
shape | 0.129 | p < 0.001 | 12 |
days | 0.130 | p < 0.001 | 14 |
weather | 0.138 | p < 0.001 | 13 |
music | 0.141 | p < 0.001 | 12 |
vegetable | 0.148 | p < 0.001 | 15 |
vehicles | 0.168 | p < 0.001 | 32 |
furniture | 0.207 | p < 0.001 | 25 |
household | 0.247 | p < 0.001 | 32 |
months | 0.420 | p < 0.001 | 13 |