Table 4 Estimated grammatical probability
From: Age-related differences in the acceptability of non-canonical word orders in Mandarin Chinese
Animacy contrast | Word order | Younger | Older | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Estimate | 95% CI | Estimate | 95% CI | ||
+ | SVO | 99.4% | [98.2, 99.8] | 99.3% | [97.9, 99.8] |
+ | ‘SOV’ | 37.5% | [16.4, 64.8] | 58.2% | [28.6, 82.9] |
+ | ‘OSV’ | 82.6% | [61.8, 93.3] | 47.7% | [21.8, 75.0] |
– | SVO | 99.8% | [97.9, 100.0] | 99.1% | [94.1, 99.9] |
– | ‘SOV’ | 2.9% | [0.6, 13.0] | 10.3% | [2.1, 37.6] |
– | ‘OSV’ | 1.8% | [0.4, 8.8] | 8.1% | [1.6, 32.2] |