Table 1. Summaries of the mixed-effects regression models presented in Figure 3a: Models for male speakers’ sibilant tokens. Models were made using a treatment coding scheme with affricate (vs. fricative) and /i/ (vs. /a/) as reference levels
| Word-initial tokens |
Lax | Tense |
Estimate (Std.E) | p-value | Estimate (Std.E) | p-value |
(Intercept) | 4,926 (415) | <.0001 | 5,008 (367) | <.0001 |
Manner(vs. Fricative) | −414 (407) | 0.315 | 82 (416) | 0.845 |
Birthyear(year 2008=0) | 0 (14) | 0.987 | −6 (13) | 0.629 |
Vowel (vs. /a/) | −202 (428) | 0.64 | −31 (494) | 0.95 |
Manner×Birthyear | −3 (14) | 0.819 | 10 (15) | 0.484 |
Manner×Vowel | 3,395 (475) | <.0001 | 3,857 (588) | <.0001 |
Vowel×Birthyear | −15 (15) | 0.317 | 17 (16) | 0.31 |
Manner×Birthyear×Vowel | 17 (17) | 0.317 | 8 (20) | 0.69 |
| Word-medial tokens |
Lax | Tense |
Estimate (Std.E) | p-value | Estimate (Std.E) | p-value |
(Intercept) | 5,652 (529) | <.0001 | 5,172 (347) | <.0001 |
Manner(vs. Fricative) | –1,151 (586) | 0.06 | −224 (335) | 0.505 |
Birthyear(year 2008=0) | 5 (23) | 0.823 | 5 (12) | 0.685 |
Vowel (vs. /a/) | 26 (568) | 0.964 | 593 (363) | 0.106 |
Manner×Birthyear | −8 (24) | 0.742 | −2 (12) | 0.864 |
Manner×Vowel | 3,842 (602) | <.0001 | 3,846 (463) | <.0001 |
Vowel×Birthyear | −6 (23) | 0.787 | −2 (12) | 0.9 |
Manner×Birthyear×Vowel | 20 (25) | 0.404 | 26 (16) | 0.108 |