. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 16.

Published in final edited form as: Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch. 2013 Apr;44(2):211–223. doi: 10.1044/0161-1461(2012/12-0021)

Table 2.

Descriptive Statistics of Macrostructural, Microstructural, and Dialectal Narrative Language Variables

	Narrative Context
Variable	Fictional		Personal
	M	SD	M	SD
Macrostructural Variable
EE	8.28	2.19	6.40	3.04
Microstructural Variables
NDW rate	2.68	0.45	4.55	1.16
C-Density	1.12	0.08	1.20	0.24
Dialect Density
DDM	0.02	0.01	0.02	0.01

Note. EE = expressive elaboration; NDW rate = Number of different word roots per communication-unit; C-Density = clause density; DDM = dialect density measure.