Research Article

The Structure of Lexical-Semantic Networks at Global and Local Levels: A Comparison between L1 and L2

Table 5

The correlation between word degree and generation position, generation frequency, and corpus frequency in L2.

PositionFrequency 1Frequency 2

CentralityPearson correlation−0.5810.8320.172
Sig. (two-Tailed)0.0020.0000.412
N252525

correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (two-tailed); frequency 1 = generation frequency; frequency 2 = corpus frequency.