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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 2.
Published in final edited form as: Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch. 2011 Oct;42(4):561–579. doi: 10.1044/0161-1461(2011/10-0038)

Table 4.

Factor loadings of early narrative measures in the three-factor solution.

Measure (variable name) Factor
Macrostructure Comprehension Microstructure
Story grammars 0.88 −0.52 −0.69
High point 0.76 −0.13 −0.48
Content items 0.90 −0.53 −0.70
Correct utterances 0.94 −0.48 −0.50
Factual questions 0.36 −0.68 −0.22
Inferential questions 0.19 −0.64 −0.08
Irrelevant utterances −0.20 0.64 0.09
Mean length of T-unit 0.54 −0.18 −0.95
Number of different words 0.76 −0.16 −0.87

Note. Variables with loadings with an absolute value >.6 were considered the primary contributors for each factor indicated in boldface.