Table 13.
Meta-analysis results
| Meaning/Knowledge | Literality | Predictability | Decomposability | Noun Frequency | Verb Frequency | AoA | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Familiarity | .80** | .01 | .34** | .29** | .25** | .09 | –.66** | –.03 |
| .75, .85 | –.12, .14 | .20, .48 | .12, .46 | .19, .32 | –.14, .31 | –.81, −.51 | –.10, .04 | |
| N = 9 | N = 9 | N = 5 | N = 8 | N = 3 | N = 3 | N = 2 | N = 4 | |
| 91,082 | 377 | 505 | 42 | 617 | ||||
| Meaning/knowledge | .02 | .27* | .40** | .21** | .05 | –.47* | .05 | |
| –.08, .13 | .07, .47 | .29, .51 | .13, .29 | –.14, .24 | –.82, −.12 | –.14, .24 | ||
| N = 9 | N = 5 | N = 8 | N = 3 | N = 3 | N = 2 | N = 3 | ||
| 231 | 1,036 | 26 | 222 | |||||
| Literality | .04 | .12 | .05 | –.02 | .04 | –.11 | ||
| –.02, .09 | –.07, .32 | –.03, .13 | –.20, .17 | –.26, .33 | –.29, −.08 | |||
| N = 5 | N = 8 | N = 3 | N = 3 | N = 2 | N = 3 | |||
| Predictability | .16 | .23** | –.14** | .16 | N/A | |||
| .02, .30 | .13, .32 | –.25, −.03 | .26, .58 | N/A | ||||
| N = 4 | N = 2 | N = 2 | N = 2 | N = 1 | ||||
| 20 | 7 | |||||||
| Decomposability | .24** | –.06 | –.27 | .16 | ||||
| .10, .38 | –.18, .05 | –.59, .04 | .03, .29 | |||||
| N = 3 | N = 3 | N = 2 | N = 3 | |||||
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Mean r values, 95 % confidence intervals of the effect sizes, numbers of studies included in the analysis, and file drawer N for the significant analyses are reported on separate lines. AoA, age of acquisition. * p < .01, ** p < .001