Table 3.

Prediction of children's storybook listening comprehension.

DV: Child cued recall accuracy scores	β	SE	t	p
Intercept	−36.292	7.420	−4.891	.000
Child age (months)	.243	0.065	3.714	.001
Child CELF Sentence Comprehension (SS)	.452	0.140	1.819	.079
Child attention (range: 1–4)	.153	1.582	0.968	.341
Caregiver education (years)	.960	0.356	2.697	.011
Caregiver appropriate pause duration (s)	8.980	4.211	2.133	.041
Caregiver fo range (ST)	.395	0.184	2.151	.039

Note. R² = .601, adjusted R² = .508, p < .001. Predictors were entered hierarchically: Step 1 (R² = .386) included child age, CELF sentence comprehension, and CTOPP phonological memory (the latter was removed in subsequent steps for a more parsimonious model); Step 2 added child attention and caregiver education (ΔR² = .050); Step 3 added caregiver oral reading prosody variables (ΔR² = .162). Reported beta coefficients reflect the final model with all predictors included. CELF = Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals Preschool; SS = standard scores; f_o = fundamental frequency; ST = semitones.