Table 3.

Zero-order correlations (Pearson’s r) between all the variables.

Measuresa		Correlationsb
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
1	AoA		<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
2	#Lett	0.204		<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.001	<0.001	0.149
3	WFr	-0.427	-0.290		<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.044	<0.001	0.011	0.000
4	#OrtNB	-0.227	-0.635	0.267		<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.020
5	WFr_OrtNB	-0.262	-0.466	0.478	0.523		<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.150	0.001
6	OLD20	0.221	0.708	-0.380	-0.616	-0.471		<0.001	0.019	0.374	0.034	0.627	0.603
7	Fam	-0.606	-0.181	0.338	0.204	0.242	-0.131		<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
8	Ima	-0.582	-0.209	0.157	0.164	0.144	-0.070	0.650		<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
9	Con	-0.478	-0.190	0.060	0.136	0.103	-0.027	0.504	0.881		<0.001	<0.001	0.024
10	Val	-0.298	-0.095	0.211	0.124	0.164	-0.063	0.453	0.231	0.128		<0.001	<0.001
11	Aro	0.278	0.155	0.076	-0.121	-0.043	0.015	-0.295	-0.289	-0.342	-0.294		<0.001
12	Dom	-0.195	-0.043	0.164	0.070	0.097	-0.016	0.383	0.151	0.067	0.849	-0.194

^aAoA, age of acquisition; #Lett, number of letters; WFr, ItWac word frequency; #OrtNB, number of orthographic neighbors; WFr_OrtNB, mean frequency of orthographic neighbors; OLD20, orthographic Levenshtein distance 20; Fam, familiarity; Ima, imageability; Con, concreteness; Val, valence; Aro, arousal; Dom, dominance; see text for details; ^bcorrelations are shown in the lower triangle with corresponding p-values in the upper triangle. Significant correlations (α = 0.05, FDR-corrected) are indicated in bold.