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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jun 24.
Published in final edited form as: Cognition. 2013 Jan 23;127(1):57–83. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.10.013

Table 1.

Summary of Study 1 results (c = centered, r = residualized; see text for details). For each effect, we report the coefficient estimate (in log-odds and odds), its standard errors and two tests of significance: Wald’s Z statistic, which tests whether the coefficients are significantly different from zero (given the estimated standard error), as well as the χ2 over the change in data likelihood, Δ(−2Λ), associated with the removal of the unresidualized predictor from the final model. Finally, we report the partial Nagelkerke R2 as a measure of effect size (cf. Jaeger, 2010, footnote 2).

Predictor (independent variable) Parameter estimates Wald’s test Δ(−2Ʌ)-test Partial pseudo-R2
Log-odds S.E. Odds Z pz χ2 p
Properties of target sentence
Theme pronominal (r) 2.25 0.39 9.5 5.7 ≪0.001 18.2 ≪0.001* 0.061
Theme given (r) 1.32 0.45 3.7 2.9 <0.005 13.8 ≪0.001* 0.047
Theme indefinite −2.41 0.41 0.1 −5.9 ≪0.001 35.6 ≪0.001* 0.112
Theme singular −0.83 0.38 0.4 −2.2 <0.05 5.6 <.05* 0.017
Recipient pronominal −0.54 0.50 0.6 −1.1 >0.2 1.2 >0.2 0.002
Recipient given (r) −2.53 0.58 0.1 −4.4 ≪0.001 24.9 ≪0.001* 0.081
Recipient indefinite 0.27 0.53 1.3 0.5 >0.6 0.3 >0.6 0.001
Recipient inanimate 3.29 0.58 26.8 5.7 ≪0.001 33.4 ≪0.001* 0.104
Recipient third person 0.39 0.41 1.5 0.9 >0.3 1.1 >0.3 0.004
Log argument length difference −2.55 0.23 0.1 −10.9 ≪0.001 66.7 ≪0.001* 0.193
Verb class = ‘prevention of possession’ −3.75 2.50 0.1 −1.6 >0.11 2.4 >0.12 0.017
Target verb bias (log-odds) 4.45 0.63 85.6 6.9 ≪0.001 117.3 ≪0.001* 0.302
Basic priming effects
PO prime (c) 0.56 0.33 1.8 1.7 <0.1 3.2 <0.1 + 0.004
Cumulative PO primes 0.29 0.23 1.3 1.2 >0.2 1.8 >0.2 0.005
Prime-target verb identity (c) 0.01 0.34 1.0 0.1 >0.9 1.4 >0.3 0.004
Log prime-target distance (c,r) 0.02 0.10 1.0 0.2 >0.8 0.2 >0.9 0.001
PO prime × verb identity (r) 1.04 0.68 2.8 1.6 >0.10 2.6 >0.10 0.009
PO prime × distance (r) −0.17 0.21 0.8 −0.4 >0.4 1.4 >0.4 0.002
PO prime × verb identity × distance (r) −0.24 0.43 0.8 −0.8 >0.5 0.4 >0.5 0.001
Effect of prime’s prediction error
Prior prime surprisal given the prime verb (c,r) −0.07 0.20 0.9 0.4 >0.7 0.2 >0.6 0.001
PO prime × prior prime surprisal (r) 0.81 0.40 2.2 2.0 <0.05 4.3 <0.05* 0.012