Children’s and Adolescents’ Processing of Temporary Syntactic Ambiguity: An Eye Movement Study

Table 3

Bivariate correlations between age, executive function, and sentence comprehension measures.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
(1) Age	—	.04	−.26	.03	.35	−.14	−.19	−.32	.05
(2) Word recall		—			−.24	.33	−.09	−.17	.07	−.01	.08	.26
(3) Nonword recall			—	.31		.31		−.33	−.13	−.16	−.09	.11
(4) Listening recall				—	−.12	.19	−.07	−.09	−.03	−.26	.13	.26
(5) Reading span					—		.32	.23	.04		.13	.29
(6) Interference control						—	−.26	−.09		−.20	−.29
(7) RA—total time							—			−.06	.19	−.14
(8) OA—total time								—	.30	.14	.07	−.16
(9) RA—regressions									—	.03		.27
(10) OA—regressions										—	.20
(11) RA—comprehension											—
(12) OA—comprehension												—

Note. , , and . OA: optionally transitive ambiguous condition, OU: optionally transitive unambiguous condition, RA: reflexive verb ambiguous condition, and RU: reflexive verb unambiguous condition. Highlighted regions correspond to retained variables in regression analyses.