Table 5.
Correlations between 11 lexical measures
| Variable | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mean Humor Rating | |||||||||||
| 2 | Age of Acquisition | 0.08 | ||||||||||
| 3 | Word Length | -0.06 | 0.26 | |||||||||
| 4 | Frequency (BNC) | -0.42 | -0.40 | -0.26 | ||||||||
| 5 | Frequency (SUBTLEX) | -0.30 | -0.57 | -0.33 | 0.78 | |||||||
| 6 | Lexicality RT | 0.27 | 0.56 | 0.30 | -0.71 | -0.73 | ||||||
| 7 | Valence | 0.09 | -0.29 | 0.03 | 0.23 | 0.19 | -0.22 | |||||
| 8 | Arousal | 0.05 | 0.07 | 0.05 | -0.06 | 0.07 | -0.04 | -0.16 | ||||
| 9 | Dominance | 0.01 | -0.22 | 0.00 | 0.23 | 0.18 | -0.20 | 0.61 | -0.15 | |||
| 10 | Concreteness | 0.12 | -0.35 | -0.05 | -0.11 | 0.00 | -0.05 | 0.11 | -0.18 | 0.05 | ||
| 11 | Frequency (ANC) | -0.40 | -0.38 | -0.27 | 0.88 | 0.78 | -0.68 | 0.22 | 0.00 | 0.22 | -0.15 | |