Table 2.
Correlation values between (log-transformed) degree centrality and a range of psycholinguistic metrics
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Out-degree | In-degree | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Degree centrality | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0.23 | 0. 99 |
| 2. Frequency | .55 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| 3. Age of acquisition | −.48 | −.40 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| 4. Concreteness | .06 | .14 | −.34 | 1 | – | – | – | – | ||
| 5. Semantic diversity | .24 | .48 | −.44 | −.17 | 1 | – | – | – | ||
| 6. Contextual diversity | .62 | .82 | −.05 | −.60 | .46 | 1 | – | |||
| 7. Phonological neighbor | .24 | .26 | .20 | −.34 | .07 | .32 | 1 | |||
| 8. Orthographic neighbor | .26 | .24 | .20 | −.33 | .06 | .30 | .81 | 1 | ||
Note. P values of all correlations <.001. Total N of words: 12,304. Values for Metrics 2–8 were taken from the English Lexicon Project (Balota et al., 2007)