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. 2019 Jul 27;24:101961. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2019.101961

Table 2.

Correlations (Spearman's rho) between number of produced words and word features (N = 58). The table shows the correlation coefficient and p-value for each pair of variables.

Lexical diversity
Sophistication
Phonological word features
MTLD HD-D Maas PCA component (lexical diversity) Lexical sophistication Number of phonemes Phonological neighborhood density Word-average biphoneme probability PCA component (phonological word features)
Number of produced words 0.718⁎⁎/ <0.0001 0.772⁎⁎/ <0.0001 −0.008/ 0.950 0.576⁎⁎/ <0.0001 −0.029/ 0.828 0.300/ 0.022 0.026/ 0.026 0.105/ 0.433 0.166/ 0.213
MTLD 0.945⁎⁎/ <0.0001 −0.525⁎⁎/ <0.0001 0.936⁎⁎/ <0.0001 0.073/ 0.587 0.536⁎⁎/ <0.0001 −0.182/ 0.171 −0.012/. 931 0.317/ 0.015
HD-D −0.522⁎⁎/ <0.0001 0.928⁎⁎/ <0.0001 0.102/ 0.448 0.578⁎⁎/ <0.0001 −0.223/ 0.092 0.006/ 0.967 0.353⁎⁎/ 0.007
Maas −0.748⁎⁎/ <0.0001 −0.419⁎⁎/ 0.001 −0.595⁎⁎/ <0.0001 0.586⁎⁎/ <0.0001 −0.161/ 0.226 −0.543⁎⁎/ <0.0001
PCA component (lexical diversity) 0.213/ 0.108 0.619⁎⁎/ <0.0001 −0.352⁎⁎/ 0.007 0.043/ 0.747 0.437⁎⁎/ 0.001
Lexical sophistication 0.433⁎⁎/ 0.001 −0.436⁎⁎/. 001 0.380⁎⁎/ 0.003 0.502⁎⁎/ <0.0001
Number of phonemes −0.767⁎⁎/ <0.0001 0.469⁎⁎/ <0.0001 0.898⁎⁎/ <0.0001
Phonological neighborhood density −0.464⁎⁎/ <0.0001 −0.868⁎⁎/ <0.001
Word-average biphoneme probability 0.732⁎⁎/ <0.0001

HD-D = hypergeometric distribution of the lexical diversity measure “D”; MTLD = measure of textual lexical diversity; PCA component = the 1st principal component; SD = standard deviation.

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Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (two-tailed).

Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (two-tailed).