Table 2.

Quadratic coefficients and standard errors extracted from the corresponding polynomial regressions; these models include regression weights penalizing high-standard-deviation words (cf. [63]).

language	quadratic effect	partial R2 of quadratic effect
Cantonese	−0.04, s.e. = 0.07	0.0008
Mandarin Chinese	+0.0095, s.e. = 0.01	0.0007
Croatian	−0.06, s.e. = 0.007	0.02
Dutch	−0.30, s.e. = 0.03	0.10
French	−0.17, s.e. = 0.02	0.13
German	−1.06, s.e. = 0.56	0.27
Indonesian	−0.22, s.e. = 0.02	0.09
Italian	−0.14, s.e. = 0.01	0.03
Polish	−0.33, s.e. = 0.01	0.13
Spanish	−0.09, s.e. = 0.01	0.04