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Table 46: Correlations of Word Frequencies with Name Agreement in and across
               Languages
Table 47: Correlations of Word Frequencies from Each Language with Naming Latencies
               in and across Languages
Table 48: Regressions on Name Agreement within Each Language
               Using both "Own Frequency" and "Other-Language Frequency" as Predictors
Table 49: Regressions on Naming Latencies within Each Language
               Using both "Own Frequency" and "Other-Language Frequency" as Predictors
Table 50: Correlations of "Own-Language Frequency" and "Other-Language Frequency"
               with Reaction Times for Morphophonological Variants (Lexical Code 2)
               and Synonyms (Lexical Code 3)
Table 51: Cognate status: physical similarity between target names in average
               number of overlapping orthographic trigrams, across all pairs of languages


Table 46
Correlations of Word Frequencies with Name Agreement in and across Languages

Frequencies from

English

German

Spanish

Italian

Bulgarian

Hungarian

Chinese

English

+.21**

+.17**

+.22*

+.29**

+.16**

+.21**

+.09*

German

+.08*

+.20**

+.18**

+.25**

+.13**

+.17**

+.07~

Spanish

+.12**

+.10**

+.14**

+.19**

ns

+.16**

+.11**

Italian

+.08*

+.11**

+.15**

+.22**

+.09*

+.10*

+.06~

Bulgarian

ns

+.07~

+.16**

+.10*

+.09*

ns

+.06~

Hungarian

+.08*

+.11**

+.13**

+.19**

+.06~

+.12**

ns

Chinese

+.13**

+.13**

+.20**

+.21**

+.10*

+.20**

+.26**

"Other-Language Frequency"

+.11**

+.15**

+.22**

+.27**

+.12**

+.19**

+.09*

"Universal Frequency"

+.14**

+.17**

+.22**

+.28**

+.13**

+.19**

+.12**

(levels of significance: p<0.01 level: **, p<0.05 level: *, p<0.1 level: ~)



Table 47
Correlations of Word Frequencies from Each Language with Naming Latencies in and across Languages

Frequencies from

English

German

Spanish

Italian

Bulgarian

Hungarian

Chinese

English

-.34** -.31** -.37** -.39** -.28** -.29** -.33*

German

-.30** -.32** -.35** -.38** -.27** -.32** -.29**

Spanish

-.27** -.28** -.24** -.33** -.21** -.26** -.25**

Italian

-.28** -.22** -.27** -.33** -.18** -.20** -.19**

Bulgarian

-.31** -.25** -.34** -.32** -.27** -.22** -.28**

Hungarian

-.27** -.27** -.27** -.33** -.22** -.27** -.25**

Chinese

-.31** -.29** -.35** -.34** -.26** -.28** -.39**

"Other-Language Frequency"

-.38** -.35** -.42** -.45** -.30** -.33** -.34**

"Universal Frequency"

-.39** -.36** -.41** -.45** -.31** -.35** -.37**

(levels of significance: p<0.01 level: **, p<0.05 level: *, p<0.1 level: ~)



Table 48
Regressions on Name Agreement within Each Language Using both "Own Frequency"
and "Other-Language Frequency" as Predictors
(Total variance & percent unique variance accounted for by each predictor after all the others are controlled)

PREDICTORS

English

German

Spanish

Italian

Bulgarian

Hungarian

Chinese

Goodness of Depiction

+14.7**

+6.9**

+6.0**

+4.4**

+6.7**

+6.4**

+10.6**

Visual Complexity

ns

ns

ns

ns

ns

ns

ns

Length in Syllables

ns

ns

-0.7*

-1.3**

ns

-1.3**

+0.7*

Initial Frication

+.05~

ns

ns

ns

ns

ns

ns

"Own Frequency"

+3.3**

+1.6**

ns

ns

ns

ns

+6.5**

"Other-Language Frequency"

-.05~

ns

+2.4**

+1.9**

ns

+1.6**

-0.7*

TOTAL VARIANCE

20.3**

11.5**

11.5**

13.3**

8.4**

11.7**

19.9**

(levels of significance: p<0.01 level: **, p<0.05 level: *, p<0.1 level: ~; plus/minus indicates direction of contribution)



Table 49
Regressions on Naming Latencies within Each Language Using both "Own Frequency"
and "Other-Language Frequency" as Predictors
(Total variance & percent unique variance accounted for by each predictor after all the others are controlled)

PREDICTORS

English

German

Spanish

Italian

Bulgarian

Hungarian

Chinese

Goodness of Depiction

-30.7** -23.1** -19.2** -17.8** -23.3** -20.0** -24.3**

Visual Complexity

ns +0.6* ns ns +0.7* ns ns

Length in Syllables

ns ns ns ns ns +0.6* ns

Initial Frication

ns +0.9** ns ns +0.6* ns ns

"Own Frequency"

-0.7* ns ns ns -2.1** ns -4.1**

"Other-Language Frequency"

-2.8** -3.4** -10.6** -7.3 ** -2.0** -3.8** -1.4**

TOTAL VARIANCE

46.1** 36.8** 36.8** 38.2** 34.4** 32.2** 41.0**

(levels of significance: p<0.01 level: **, p<0.05 level: *, p<0.1 level: ~; plus/minus indicates direction of contribution)



Table 50
Correlations of "Own-Language Frequency" and "Other-Language Frequency"
with Reaction Times for Morphophonological Variants (Lexical Code 2)
and Synonyms (Lexical Code 3)

 

English

German

Spanish

Italian

Bulgarian

Hungarian

Chinese

OWN FREQUENCY

Lexical Code 2

ns

ns

ns

-.17**

-.21**

ns

-.22**

Lexical Code 3

-.16~

-.23**

ns

-.19**

ns

ns

-.16~

OTHER-LANGUAGE FREQUENCY

Lexical Code 2

-.17*

ns

-.26**

-.23**

-.25**

-.08~

-.32**

Lexical Code 3

-.28**

-.27**

-.25**

-.33*

-.28**

-.21**

ns

(levels of significance: p<0.01 level: **, p<0.05 level: *, p<0.1 level: ~)



Table 51
Cognate status: physical similarity between target names in average number of overlapping orthographic trigrams, across all pairs of languages

 

EN

GE

SP

IT

BU

HU

CH

English

---

 

 

 

 

 

 

German

0.65

---

 

 

 

 

 

Spanish

0.48

0.29

---

 

 

 

 

Italian

0.56

0.44

1.01

---

 

 

 

Bulgarian

0.30

0.48

0.31

0.44

---

 

 

Hungarian

0.19

0.30

0.18

0.27

0.33

---

 

Chinese

0.02

0.02

0.02

0.01

0.02

0.00

---

Mean Overlap with All Other Languages

0.37

0.36

0.38

0.46

0.31

0.21

0.02

(All languages: 30%)