Table 2.
Mean (SD) frequency and proportion of utterances for each utterance framing and content type for narrative and non-narrative books.
| Generic | Specific | Label | Physical description | Story-specific | Natural fact | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Narr | NonN | Narr | NonN | Narr | NonN | Narr | NonN | Narr | NonN | Narr | NonN | |
| Frequency | 1.68 | 1.56 | 8.72a | 5.64b | 7.84 | 9.32 | 0.76a | 2.72b | 7.52a | 1.64b | 2.16 | 2.84 |
| (2.02) | (1.33) | (5.03) | (4.13) | (5.01) | (3.59) | (0.97) | (2.81) | (4.79) | (2.00) | (2.12) | (1.89) | |
| Proportion: total maternal | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.19 | 0.16 | 0.18a | 0.31b | 0.02a | 0.07b | 0.16a | 0.05b | 0.05 | 0.09 |
| (0.06) | (0.05) | (0.10) | (0.13) | (0.09) | (0.20) | (0.02) | (0.08) | (0.10) | (0.06) | (0.06) | (0.06) | |
Means with different superscripts for narrative and non-narrative within each category were significantly different at p < 0.0125.