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. 2020 Oct 20;11:570587. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.570587

TABLE 7.

Does comprehension of relative clause structure interact with bilingualism for cognitive function? glm() regression with Poisson error were used to model cognitive parameters.

Dependent variable:
TEA-1
TEA-2
TEA-3
Backward digit span
(1) (2) (3) (4)
(Intcpt)/Monolingual 1.897 1.917 1.660 1.692
t = 19.539 t = 19.646 t = 14.784 t = 15.165
p = 0.000 p = 0.000 p = 0.000 p = 0.000
Bilingual 0.021 0.239 0.322 0.132
t = 0.159 t = 1.939 t = 2.312 t = 0.920
p = 0.874 p = 0.053 p = 0.021 p = 0.358
Relative-Clause 0.043 −0.007 −0.045 −0.073
t = 0.412 t = −0.064 t = −0.371 t = −0.603
p = 0.681 p = 0.949 p = 0.711 p = 0.547
Bilingual: Rel-Clause −0.034 −0.055 −0.010 0.087
(Interaction) t = −0.251 t = −0.432 t = −0.071 t = 0.583
p = 0.802 p = 0.666 p = 0.944 p = 0.560
Observations 48 48 48 48
Log Likelihood −91.323 −108.801 −131.834 −93.458
Akaike Inf. Crit. 190.647 225.601 271.668 194.915

Model 1: TEA-1 ∼ Monoling/Biling × Relative Clause, Poisson error. Model 2: TEA-2 ∼ Monoling/Biling × Relative Clause, Poisson error. Model 3: TEA-3 ∼ Monoling/Biling × Relative Clause, Poisson error. Model 4: Backward digit span ∼ Monoling/Biling × Relative Clause, Poisson error.