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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 8.
Published in final edited form as: J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2010 Aug 12;53(6):1704–1719. doi: 10.1044/1092-4388(2010/09-0180)

Table 4.

Total raw frequency and proportion of naming errors by group, error type, and target type.

Error type Object Action


SLI
M (SD)
VM
M (SD)
AM
M (SD)
SLI
M (SD)
VM
M (SD)
AM
M (SD)
Semantic
    GAP 9 14 8 13 10 10
0.054 (0.078) 0.093 (0.061) 0.080 (0.079) 0.042 (0.051) 0.032 (0.058) 0.064 (0.087)
    Coordinate 34 39 26 50 47 21
0.208 (0.082) 0.248 (0.104) 0.302 (0.164) 0.167 (0.133) 0.160 (0.094) 0.112 (0.097)
    Subordinate 7 5 4 2 4 7
0.037 (0.097) 0.029 (0.049) 0.091 (0.267) 0.007 (0.018) 0.015 (0.025) 0.042 (0.046)
    Thematic 25 17 10 38 33 24
0.134 (0.102) 0.095 (0.101) 0.093 (0.113) 0.117 (0.086) 0.114 (0.071) 0.120 (0.106)
    Circumlocution 3 1 0 7 5 1
0.021 (0.043) 0.012 (0.045) 0 (0) 0.020 (0.029) 0.017 (0.032) 0.004 (0.017)
    Total 78 76 48 110 99 63
0.455 (0.160) 0.477 (0.109) 0.566 (0.168) 0.353 (0.143) 0.338 (0.155) 0.343 (0.214)
Visual
    Misperception 27 34 22 11 17 21
0.169 (0.084) 0.223 (0.097) 0.271 (0.226) 0.038 (0.046) 0.052 (0.067) 0.137 (0.097)
    Misinterpretation 6 7 4 134 136 49
0.034 (0.059) 0.048 (0.084) 0.045 (0.078) 0.363 (0.170) 0.400 (0.170) 0.278 (0.178)
    Total 33 41 26 145 153 70
0.203 (0.106) 0.271 (0.132) 0.317 (0.206) 0.401 (0.172) 0.452 (0.134) 0.415 (0.206)
Other
    Synonym 0 1 0 3 2 5
0 (0) 0.012 (0.045) 0 (0) 0.010 (0.026) 0.007 (0.018) 0.041 (0.089)
    Novel word 3 4 2 6 3 0
0.022 (0.044) 0.018 (0.037) 0.023 (0.061) 0.022 (0.042) 0.009 (0.023) 0 (0)
    Phonological 2 2 1 2 3 1
0.014 (0.036) 0.013 (0.032) 0.012 (0.044) 0.008 (0.020) 0.008 (0.015) 0.004 (0.017)
    Unrelated 18 3 2 32 34 17
0.087 (0.116) 0.018 (0.051) 0.018 (0.067) 0.088 (0.073) 0.101 (0.080) 0.089 (0.077)
    Perseveration 6 1 0 7 5 4
0.032 (0.046) 0.006 (0.024) 0 (0) 0.023 (0.035) 0.014 (0.024) 0.020 (0.045)
    No response 27 29 7 34 22 16
0.187 (0.151) 0.184 (0.148) 0.064 (0.097) 0.096 (0.129) 0.072 (0.056) 0.086 (0.103)
    Total 56 40 12 84 69 43
0.343 (0.177) 0.252 (0.153) 0.117 (0.123) 0.246 (0.127) 0.210 (0.103) 0.241 (0.140)

Note. Mean proportions were calculated by dividing the number of a certain subtype of errors by the total number of errors for each participant and then averaging over the 14 participants in each group. GAP = general all-purpose verbs.