The pairwise distances between verbs were submitted to multidimensional scaling into two dimensions.
the effect is only significant for N ≥ 7; hence, the hypothesis that space density increases the odds of a coinage occurs in the construction is supported for measures of density based on these values of N. More generally, the p-value decreases as N in-creases, which means that the positive relation between DENSITY and OCCURRENCE is less systematic when DENSITY is measured with fewer neighbors.