Table 2.
Correlations between Decoding/Word Recognition and Comprehension Measures and Prosody Measures for Adults with Low Literacy Skills
| Prosody Types | Word Attack | DIBELS PSF |
Letter Word Identification |
Passage Comprehension |
WRCM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pauses | |||||
| Words | −0.201 | −0.100 | −0.255 | −0.046 | −.241 |
| Adj. Commas | −0.246 | −0.360** | −0.366* | −0.329* | −.173 |
| Phrase Commas | −0.120 | −0.271* | −0.120 | −0.388* | −.122 |
| Sentences | 0.062 | −0.151 | −0.023 | −0.131 | −.143 |
| Quotatives | −0.231 | −0.002 | −0.124 | −0.142 | −.223 |
| Intrusions | |||||
| Words | −0.507** | −0.280* | −0.640** | −0.536** | −.444** |
| Sentences | −0.540** | −0.467** | −0.679** | −0.602** | −.624** |
| Pitch Changes | |||||
| Declarative | −0.083 | −0.283* | −0.103 | −0.089 | −.050 |
| Wh- Questions | 0.117 | 0.142 | 0.098 | −0.118 | ..092 |
| Yes/No Questions | 0.250 | 0.056 | 0.123 | 0.036 | .176 |
| Pitch Variation | −0.237 | −0.305* | −0.288* | −0.261 | −.050 |