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Table 4.

Relations between joint attention, imitation, and toy play, and language ability

	Init Protodecl JA	Resp Protodecl JA	Init Protoimp JA	Toy Play	Immediate imitation	Deferred imitation
Mullen Verbal AE	.53^**	.60^**	.23	.54^**	.66^**	.67^**
Mullen Rec Lang AE	.49^**	.58^**	.20	.50^**	.64^**	.66^**
Mullen Expr Lang AE	.53^**	.59^**	.25^a	.56^**	.64^**	.63^**
Vineland Comm AE	.53^**	.62^**	.30^*	.51^**	.56^**	.65^**

P < .05

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P < .001

P = .05