Table 4.

Mean performances on the elision task by type of item.

	Younger children	Older children
	Mean (SD)
Syllable deletion [18]	.53 (.33)	.83 (.24)
Initial [8]a	.57 (.35)	.85 (.24)
Medial [2]	.15 (.30)	.61 (.43)
Final [8]	.60 (.38)	.87 (.24)
Sub-syllabic deletion [6]	.02 (.07)	.44 (.27)
Onset [3]	.01 (.06)	.38 (.29)
Rime [3]	.02 (.08)	.49 (.36)
Phoneme deletion [14]	.00 (.00)	.34 (.24)
Initial [6] C_G(V)C	.00 (.00)	.52 (.36)
Medial [6] CGVX	.00 (.00)	.09 (.22)
Final [2] C(G)V_C	.00 (.00)	.56 (.41)

^aThe number of items for each type of deletion is presented in brackets.