Constructing the Mandarin Phonological Network: Novel Syllable Inventory Used to Identify Schematic Segmentation

Table 6

Topological network measures of the PSNs’ giant components.

	CGVX	C_GVX	CG_VX	C_V_C	CG_V_X	C_G_VX	C_G_V_C	C_G_V_X
Units	1	2	2	3	3	3	4	4
Size	88.15	71.91	70.41	70.52	69.1	70.33	69.13	68.79
	139.97	14.53	13.2	10.19	10.54	11.73	9.79	8.93
M	0.577	0.602	0.628	0.613	0.689	0.593	0.622	0.633
	2.79	5.31	5.58	6.49	7.47	5.77	6.85	7.65
-RN	2.47	4.01	4.14	4.56	4.50	4.33	4.62	4.79
	(1.93 )	(2.75 )	(4.09 )	(3.16 )	(3.16 )	(6.59 )	(1.13 )	(1.14 )
	0.578	0.319	0.336	0.303	0.435	0.278	0.310	0.340
-RN	5.29	6.53	6.10	4.81	4.97	5.36	4.54	4.25
	(6.25 )	(4.01 )	(3.30 )	(4.19 )	(3.48 )	(3.19 )	(4.86 )	(3.24 )
Cut-off/p	226/	27/	24/NS	19/	20/	37/NS	31/NS	27/NS
	+T	+T	+T	+T	+T	+T	+T	+T
Units	2	3	3	4	4	4	5	5
Size	71.89	49.11	48.88	34.39	31.02	45.1	35.29	30.53
	25.64	3.61	4.98	3.10	3.14	4.61	4.47	4.51
M	0.733	0.538	0.918	0.454	0.470	0.894	0.891	0.900
	5.40	12.12	12.68	15.15	17.47	12.44	14.74	17.72
-RN	3.42	7.57	6.16	8.17	8	6.40	6.37	6.24
	(1.81 )	(1.47 )	(3.20 )	(2.48 )	(2.23 )	(7.84 )	(9.66 )	(8.22 )
	0.628	0.303	0.460	0.247	0.335	0.358	0.388	0.416
-RN	1.21	2.16	3.27	2.99	3.85	3.43	3.96	4.91
	(1.90 )	(9.25 )	(5.98 )	(1.47 )	(9.07 )	(8.30 )	(9.51 )	(1.19 )
Cut-off/p	71/	10/NS	3/	10/NS	6/	4/	3/	3/

Note: Units = number of units within each PSN’s maximal syllable; Size = percent of nodes covered by the giant component; = mean degree; M = mixing by degree; = mean shortest path length; -RN = of 10 iterations of random networks (mean standard deviation of -RN); = mean clustering coefficient; -RN = of 10 iterations of random networks (mean standard deviation of -RN); Cut-off/p = properties of a power-law degree distribution, such that Cut-off denotes where in the distribution the calculation begins, and p, the probability of said distribution accounting for a power-law distribution, expressed as either NS (nonsignificant), (p < 0.05), or (p < 0.01)