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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 6.
Published in final edited form as: Sign Lang Linguist. 2014;17(2):181–212. doi: 10.1075/sll.17.2.02app

Table 3.

The mean number of prosodic features David produced at each developmental session on gestures occurring in utterances containing 2 gestures and utterances containing 3 or more gestures as a function of position (Beginning, Middle, End). Standard errors are in parentheses. N’s are the number of gestures in each position.

Age Utterances containing
2 gestures
Utterances containing
3 or more gestures


Beginning End Beginning Middle End
3;05 .43 (.06)
n=121
.69 (.07)
n = 121
.36 (.05)
n = 115
.39 (.03)
n = 267
.73 (.07)
n = 115
3;11 .62 (.08)
n = 81
.90 (.09)
n = 81
.65 (.07)
n = 103
.54 (.06)
n = 156
.90 (.08)
n = 103
5;02 .41 (.05)
n = 99
.46 (.06)
n = 99
.55 (.07)
n = 95
.38 (.04)
n = 207
.68 (.07)
n = 95