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Table 5 Estimated decision 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

99.9%

[99.1, 100]

99.9%

[98.9, 100]

+

‘SOV’

95.5%

[83.1, 98.9]

99.4%

[95.5, 99.9]

+

‘OSV’

99.5%

[96.5, 99.9]

99.8%

[98.2, 100]

–

SVO

99.7%

[97.1, 100]

99.4%

[94.8, 99.9]

–

‘SOV’

20.5%

[5.9, 51.6]

5.0%

[0.9, 23.0]

–

‘OSV’

17.9%

[3.0, 60.6]

1.6%

[0.1, 16.3]