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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 22.
Published in final edited form as: J Educ Psychol. 2004 Mar 1;96(1):119–129. doi: 10.1037/0022-0663.96.1.119

Table 4. Path Weights, Standard Errors, and t Values for the Decoding Speed and Reading Comprehension Skill as Predictor of Reading Prosody Model.

Path Weight SE ta p
Direct paths from decoding speed
Intersentential pause structure − 1.02 0.41 2.47 .007
Intrasentential pause length −0.52 0.35 1.49 .040
Sentence-final F0 declination −0.06 0.73 0.08 .234
Child–adult F0 match − 1.05 1.92 −0.55 .352

Direct paths from WIAT-Reading Comprehension
Intersentential pause structure 0.51 0.51 1.01 .082
Intrasentential pause length 0.01 0.43 0.03 .224
Sentence-final F0 declination 0.48 0.95 0.51 .155
Child–adult F0 match 1.83 1.56 0.71 .122

Note. F0 = fundamental frequency; WIAT = Wechsler Individual Achievement Test.

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df = 14.