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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Fluency Disord. 2013 Mar 16;38(2):171–183. doi: 10.1016/j.jfludis.2013.03.001

Table 1.

Types and Examples of Spontaneous Comments Measured in the Present Study during Preschool-age Children’s (N=54) Conversation with an Examiner. Adapted from Kagan et al. (1998).

Types of spontaneous comments (SC) Example
Unprovoked comment (U) Child: Oh look, this is a pig [U].
Examiner: How many sisters do you have?
Child: Two [S].
Elaboration of answer (E) Child: Kathy is 8 years old and Anita is 9 years old [E].
Child: They all go to school [E].
Question (Q) Child: What is that? [Q].

Note: [S] refers to a ‘simple answer’ (i.e., Non-spontaneous comment).