Table 7.
Correlations (Spearman rank) between linguistic factors and naming accuracies in tests per language
| rho | p value after Bonferroni corrections | |
|---|---|---|
| English | ||
| Object naming | ||
| Frequency | 0.1285691 | 0.9999 |
| AoA | − 0.2480907 | 0.3292 |
| Length | 0.1947115 | 0.7016 |
| Animacy | 0.08952827 | 0.2256 |
| Action naming present | ||
| Frequency | 0.2797524 | 0.9999 |
| AoA | − 0.3125268 | 0.9999 |
| Length | 0.2336326 | 0.9999 |
| Transitivity | − 0.3322092 | 0.9712 |
| Number of arguments | − 0.3322080 | 0.9712 |
| Instrumentality | − 0.271525 | 0.9999 |
| Name relatedness to noun | − 0.1324906 | 0.9999 |
| Action naming past | ||
| Frequency | 0.09020308 | 0.9999 |
| AoA | − 0.3821577 | 0.3936 |
| Length | − 0.3447656 | 0.6256 |
| Regularity | − 0.04077954 | 0.9999 |
| Transitivity | 0.0067992 | 0.9999 |
| Number of arguments | 0.006798 | 0.9999 |
| Instrumentality | 0.03877786 | 0.9999 |
| Name relatedness to noun | 0.3070675 | 0.9536 |
| German | ||
| Object naming | ||
| Frequency | 0.04850672 | 0.9999 |
| AoA | − 0.2034235 | 0.3200 |
| Length | 0.0461811 | 0.9999 |
| Animacy | 0.138077 | 0.9500 |
| Action naming | ||
| Frequency | 0.1540224 | 0.9999 |
| AoA | − 0.2893704 | 0.0944 |
| Length | − 0.01664306 | 0.9999 |
| Transitivity | − 0.02537652 | 0.9999 |
| Number of arguments | − 0.04504365 | 0.9999 |
| Instrumentality | − 0.07385802 | 0.9999 |
| Name relatedness to noun | − 0.01873735 | 0.9999 |
| Dutch | ||
| Object naming | ||
| Frequency | 0.09742688 | 0.9999 |
| AoA | − 0.2995647 | 0.0360 |
| Length | − 0.2112492 | 0.2756 |
| Animacy | 0.03880498 | 0.9999 |
| Action naming | ||
| Frequency | 0.2316214 | 0.3648 |
| AoA | − 0.3357215 | 0.0256 |
| Length | − 0.1349784 | 0.9999 |
| Transitivity | − 0.0249946 | 0.9999 |
| Number of arguments | − 0.02794969 | 0.9999 |
| Instrumentality | − 0.1284161 | 0.9999 |
| Name relatedness to noun | − 0.1481571 | 0.9999 |