Table 4.

Primary analyses: narrative scores by participant group.

	DS Mean (SD) Range	FXS Mean (SD) Range	TD Mean (SD) Range
Macrostructural variablesa
Story grammar organization	6.52 (5.70)	7.36 (3.91)	10.09 (5.10)
	0–19	1–14	0–17
Microstructural variablesb
Verb use	0.50 (0.28)	0.61 (0.22)	0.74 (0.18)
	0.00–1.00	0.24−0.96	0.39−0.98
Adverb use	0.19 (0.18)	0.19 (0.16)	0.35 (0.23)
	0.00−0.76	0.00−0.51	0.04−0.78
Conjunction use	0.03 (0.06)	0.03 (0.05)	0.07 (0.10)
	0.00−0.18	0.00−0.15	0.00−0.41

^aNumber of episodic elements expressed (maximum = 31). ^bProportion of C-units including the word category.