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. 2020 Sep;202:104310. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104310

Table 2.

Example calculation of the chi-square preemption statistic for giggle.

Less-transparent structure (English transitive-causative, X VERBed Y) More-transparent structure (English periphrastic-causative, X made Y VERB)
Giggle 0 7
All other verbs 468,636 3676

Chi2 = 1,387,700.