Table 2.

Description of PEPS-C Form Tasks

	Child Task	Examiner Score
Input
"Intonation"	Participants heard a pair of words, but the speech was filtered such that all that the participants could hear was the intonation of the word. Participants determined whether the two patterns were the same or different. Patterns were similar to the ones used in Intonation Output and the PEPS-C Affect and Turn-End Type Function tasks.	Response scored automatically by the computer program.
“Prosody”	Participants heard a pair of short phrases, but the speech was filtered such that all that the participants could hear was the prosody of the phrase. Participants determined whether the two patterns were the same or different. Patterns were similar to the ones used in Prosody Output and on the PEPS-C Chunking Function tasks.	Response scored automatically by the computer program.
Output
"Intonation"	Participants heard a single word, said with a specific intonation pattern, and had to imitate the word and intonation pattern. Patterns were similar to the ones used in Intonation Input and the PEPS-C Affect and Turn-End Type Function tasks.	Examiner judged whether imitated phrase was good (1 point), fair (.5 points) or poor (0 points).
"Prosody"	Participants heard short phrases, such as "pink and red and black socks," that were said with specific prosodic cues, (e.g., "pink - and red and black socks," or "pink and red - and black socks", where the "-" represents a subtle pause), and had to repeat the phrase. Patterns were similar to the ones used in Prosody Input and on the PEPS-C Chunking Function tasks.	Examiner judged whether imitated phrase was good (1 point), fair (.5 points) or poor (0 points).