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. 2017 Feb 24;12(2):e0171935. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0171935

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