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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Oct 2.
Published in final edited form as: J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2008 Jun;51(3):722–738. doi: 10.1044/1092-4388(2008/051)

Table 4.

Silent pause rates by group and duration category.

250–500 ms 500–1000 ms 1000–2000 ms >2000 msa Total
Group M SD M SD M SD M SD M SD
SLI 0.07b 0.03 0.11c 0.05 0.07 0.04 0.03 0.02 0.27 0.09
CA 0.07 0.02 0.07c 0.02 0.05 0.03 0.01 0.01 0.20 0.05
LA 0.08 0.03 0.09 0.04 0.06 0.03 0.02 0.03 0.25 0.08
a

Note. Silent pauses that are longer than 2000 ms.

b

The unit of measure is the number of silent pauses per word.

c

A significant between-groups difference, p < .05.