Table 4.
Summary of fixed effects for a comparison of bilingual and monolingual infants with and without short term exposure to Spanish.
| Predictor | Estimate | SE | z-value | p-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DV: Length of utterance | ||||
| Intercept | 0.75 | 0.25 | 3.04 | 0.002* |
| Bilingual | 0.45 | 0.31 | 1.43 | 0.15 |
| Short-term exposure | −0.49 | 0.31 | −1.57 | 0.12 |
| Language = Spanish | −0.04 | 0.17 | −0.21 | 0.84 |
| Total # utterances | −0.002 | 0.002 | −0.99 | 0.32 |
| Bilingual X Language | 0.69 | 0.23 | 3.02 | 0.003* |
| Exposure X Language | 0.57 | 0.22 | 2.56 | 0.01* |
| DV: Syllable shape | ||||
| Intercept | −1.94 | 0.27 | −7.13 | < 0.001* |
| Bilingual | −0.30 | 0.34 | −0.89 | 0.37 |
| Short-term exposure | 0.55 | 0.34 | 1.63 | 0.10 |
| Language = Spanish | 0.08 | 0.22 | 0.35 | 0.73 |
| Total # utterances | 0.0002 | 0.003 | 0.11 | 0.92 |
| Bilingual X Language | −0.13 | 0.30 | −0.42 | 0.67 |
| Exposure X Language | −0.33 | 0.28 | −1.18 | 0.24 |