Table 2. Summaries of the mixed-effects regression models presented in Figure 3b: Models for female 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) | 6,617 (361) | <.0001 | 7,397 (279) | <.0001 |
Manner(vs. Fricative) | –1,157 (421) | 0.009 | −28 (381) | 0.942 |
Birthyear(year 2008=0) | 9 (14) | 0.531 | 24 (10) | 0.032 |
Vowel (vs. /a/) | 10 (454) | 0.983 | 880 (800) | 0.277 |
Manner×Birthyear | −18 (16) | 0.26 | 9 (14) | 0.55 |
Manner×Vowel | 3,407 (504) | <.0001 | 512 (774) | 0.509 |
Vowel×Birthyear | −9 (17) | 0.598 | 16 (26) | 0.551 |
Manner×Birthyear×Vowel | 25 (19) | 0.187 | –47 (25) | 0.064 |
| Word-medial tokens |
Lax | Tense |
Estimate (Std.E) | p-value | Estimate (Std.E) | p-value |
(Intercept) | 8,042 (444) | <.0001 | 7,048 (302) | <.0001 |
Manner(vs. Fricative) | –2,474 (408) | <.0001 | −626 (355) | 0.086 |
Birthyear(year 2008=0) | 39 (16) | 0.03 | 7 (11) | 0.537 |
Vowel (vs. /a/) | −151 (471) | 0.749 | 1,634 (400) | <.0001 |
Manner×Birthyear | –45 (15) | 0.005 | 10 (13) | 0.453 |
Manner×Vowel | 3,768 (532) | <.0001 | 1,622 (475) | 0.001 |
Vowel×Birthyear | –29 (17) | 0.088 | 30 (14) | 0.039 |
Manner×Birthyear×Vowel | 31 (19) | 0.115 | –47 (17) | 0.006 |