Table 2.
Linear mixed-effect model analyses for character naming and lexical decision
| Character naming | Lexical decision | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estimate | SE | T | Estimate | SE | t | |
| Onset features | ||||||
| Stop | -0.028 | 0.016 | -1.731 | 0.023 | 0.011 | 2.165 |
| Aspirated | -0.177 | 0.019 | -9.178 | 0.006 | 0.013 | 0.451 |
| Voiced | -0.083 | 0.013 | -6.185 | 0.001 | 0.009 | 0.088 |
| Bilabial | 0.031 | 0.021 | 1.479 | -0.005 | 0.014 | -0.373 |
| Labiodental | 0.099 | 0.029 | 3.414 | 0.005 | 0.019 | 0.245 |
| Alveolar | 0.068 | 0.017 | 4.090 | -0.002 | 0.011 | -0.148 |
| Palatoal-veolar | 0.156 | 0.017 | 9.330 | 0.007 | 0.011 | 0.628 |
| Alveolo-palatal | 0.178 | 0.017 | 10.325 | -0.002 | 0.011 | -0.202 |
| Variables | ||||||
| Log CF | -0.110 | 0.007 | -15.477 | -0.074 | 0.006 | -15.795 |
| REG | -0.033 | 0.013 | -2.595 | -0.005 | 0.008 | -0.600 |
| UNP | -0.030 | 0.017 | -1.688 | -0.009 | 0.011 | -0.745 |
| NS | 0.023 | 0.005 | 4.183 | 0.023 | 0.004 | 6.158 |
| CON | -0.028 | 0.007 | -4.223 | -0.004 | 0.005 | -0.904 |
| PC | 0.005 | 0.006 | 0.901 | -0.006 | 0.004 | -1.684 |
| SC | 0.011 | 0.005 | 2.177 | 0.008 | 0.003 | 2.224 |
| SAR | -0.034 | 0.007 | -5.024 | -0.018 | 0.004 | -3.930 |
| IMG | -0.057 | 0.006 | -10.371 | -0.030 | 0.004 | -8.174 |
| AoA | 0.030 | 0.007 | 4.515 | 0.025 | 0.004 | 5.844 |
| R2_m | 8.94% | 5.63% | ||||
| R2_c | 32.38% | 30.18% | ||||
Log CF log character frequency, REG regular, UNP unpronounceable, NS number of strokes, CON consistency, PC phonetic combinability, SC semantic combinability, SAR semantic ambiguity rating, IMG imageability, AoA age of acquisition, R2_m marginal R2, R2_c conditional R2
Four lexical-semantic variables are indicated in bold