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. 2022 Jun 29;50(6):1284–1298. doi: 10.3758/s13421-022-01331-0

Table 2.

Summary of regression models analyzed in Study 1

Google Ngram Corpus COHA
Predicting Semantic Stability Between 1800 and 2000 Predicting Semantic Stability Between 1820 and 2000
Predictors Estimates p Estimates p Estimates p Estimates p Estimates p Estimates p
(Intercept) 0.00 1.000 0.07 <0.001 0.09 <0.001 -0.93 <0.001 -0.74 <0.001 -1.01 <0.001
Log Frequency (year 1800/1820) 0.73 <0.001 0.73 <0.001 0.76 <0.001 0.63 <0.001 0.48 <0.001 0.65 <0.001
Log Frequency (year 2000) -0.67 <0.001 -0.64 <0.001 -0.74 <0.001 0.18 <0.001 0.15 0.005 0.17 <0.001
Length 0.08 <0.001 0.03 0.096 0.20 <0.001 -0.01 0.553 0.00 0.928 -0.02 0.490
Emotionality -0.01 0.437 0.01 0.748 -0.01 0.466 -0.01 0.686 0.00 0.969 0.00 0.838
Valence 0.04 <0.001 0.05 0.004 0.04 0.007 -0.00 0.842 0.01 0.699 0.01 0.624
Arousal 0.02 0.035 -0.01 0.489 0.03 0.030 0.05 0.003 0.05 0.064 0.05 0.009
Concreteness 0.09 <0.001 0.01 0.518 0.11 <0.001 0.08 <0.001 0.11 <0.001 0.07 0.002
Log Polysemy 0.02 0.091 -0.01 0.671 0.01 0.592 -0.19 <0.001 -0.09 0.016 -0.22 <0.001
Age of Acquisition (AoA) -0.22 <0.001 -0.14 <0.001 -0.24 <0.001 -0.25 <0.001 -0.16 <0.001 -0.32 <0.001
Semantic Processing (RT) -0.09 <0.001 -0.07 0.005
Lexical Decision (RT) -0.05 0.012 0.04 0.054
Observations 8133 2786 4847 2845 887 2046
R2/R2 0.248/0.247 0.279/0.276 0.255/0.253 0.447/0.445 0.296/0.288 0.477/0.475

Due to constraints of data size, the starting year for the Google Ngram Corpus is 1800 while the starting year for the COHA is 1820. All variables are scaled and mean centered.