Table 5.

Number of Pronouns and Points (Mean Proportion in Parentheses) Produced by Children in the Low- and High-Language Groups

	Subject	1st-person	2nd-person	3rd-person	Points to objects	Total
Low-language group	ASD-F1	0 (.00)	0 (.00)	0 (.00)	13 (1.00)	13 (1.00)
	ASD-M4	1 (.17)	0 (.00)	0 (.00)	5 (.83)	6 (1.00)
	ASD-M2	0 (.00)	0 (.00)	0 (.00)	64 (1.00)	64 (1.00)
	ASD-M8	5 (.12)	2 (.05)	0 (.00)	35 (.83)	42 (1.00)
	ASD-M1	6 (.55)	0 (.00)	0 (.00)	5 (.45)	11 (1.00)
	ASD-M7	1 (.14)	0 (.00)	0 (.00)	6 (.86)	7 (1.00)
	ASD-F3	1 (.05)	0 (.00)	0 (.00)	18 (.95)	19 (1.00)
	ASD-M6	3 (.04)	0 (.00)	2 (.03)	74 (.94)	79 (1.00)
	ASD-M11	1 (01)	1 (01)	0 (.00)	81 (.98)	83 (1.00)
Total (mean)	18 (.12)	3 (.01)	2 (.00)	301 (.87)	324 (1.00)

	Subject	1st-person	2nd-person	3rd-person	Points to objects	Total
High-language group	ASD-M3	34 (.51)	2 (.03)	9 (.13)	22 (.33)	67 (1.00)
	ASD-F2	14 (.14)	3 (.03)	1 (.01)	83 (.82)	101 (1.00)
	ASD-M5	38 (.35)	2 (.02)	3 (.03)	66 (.61)	109 (1.00)
	ASD-M10	52 (.37)	5 (.04)	3 (.02)	80 (.57)	140 (1.00)
	ASD-F4	57 (.63)	0 (.00)	0 (.00)	33 (.37)	90 (1.00)
Total (mean)	195 (.40)	12 (.02)	16 (.04)	284 (.54)	507 (1.00)