Table 3.

Correlations between children’s FMSS word recall, the control variable Age, and the two predictor variables Semantic Scores and Gating Competition

Pearson’s correlations
	FMSS	Age	Semantic Score	Gating Competition
FMSS	1.00
Age	.44*	1.00
Semantic Score	.54*	.18	1.00
Gating Competition	−.42*	.078	−.18	1.00

Partial correlations at regression analysis Model 1 Step 3.		Semi-partial (part) correlations at regression analysis Model 1 Step 3.
	FMSS		FMSS
Age	.50	Age	.39
Semantic Score	.50	Semantic Score	.39
Gating Competition	−.48	Gating Competition	−.37
Pearson’s correlations SLI group		Pearson’s correlations CA group
	FMSS		FMSS
Semantic Score	.34	Semantic Score	.17
Gating Competition	−.20	Gating Competition	.01

^*p < .05