Table 8.

Multiple regression equations with phonological awareness (Rhyme Oddity) and single word reading (BAS SS) as dependent variables and age, NVIQ and the music/speech tasks as predictors.

	Phon aware ь (CI)	ь SE	ß	Sig	BAS read ь (CI)	ь SE	ß	Sig
NVIQ	0.10 (0.06 to 0.13)	0.02	0.44**	0.001	0.49 (0.33 to 0.64)	0.08	0.46**	0.001
Age	0.05 (0.00 to 0.10)	0.02	0.19*	0.033	−0.26 (−0.45 to −0.06)	0.10	−0.21*	0.013
Speech rhythm	0.16 (0.06 to 0.24)	0.05	0.26**	0.003	0.83 (0.33 to 1.3)	0.26	0.28**	0.001
Speech pitch	0.12 (0.05 to 0.18)	0.04	0.21**	0.002	0.46 (0.11 to 0.79)	0.18	0.17*	0.015
NVIQ	0.09 (0.06 to 0.13)	0.02	0.41**	0.001	0.50 (0.36 to 0.67)	0.08	0.48**	0.001
Age	0.06 (0.02 to 0.10)	0.02	0.24**	0.005	−0.21 (−0.40 to 0.03)	0.11	−0.17	0.051
Musical beat	9.6 (3.7 to 14.8)	2.8	0.32**	0.001	36.4 (1.1 to 57.5)	13.2	0.25*	0.005
Tapping 4/4	0.29 (−0.23 to 0.82)	0.26	0.10	0.266	1.4 (−1.2 to 3.9)	1.2	0.10	0.239
VL4/4	0.612 (−0.887 to 2.56)	0.90	0.058	0.505	1.6 (−5.9 to 1.5)	4.3	0.031	0.708

Phon Aware, oddity rhyme task; ь (CI), unstandardized beta and confidence intervals; ь SE—standardized error for ь; ß, standardized beta coefficient; Sig, bootstrapped significance; BAS Read, BAS Single Word Reading Scaled Score; Speech Rhythm, Match Speech Rhythm AXB score; Speech Pitch, Match Speech Pitch AXB score; Musical Beat, Musical Beat Perception accuracy; Tapping 4/4, timing accuracy when tapping to music in 4/4 time (synchronization score); VL 4/4, timing accuracy when tapping to music in 4/4 time, vector length score.

^*p < 0.05;

^**p < 0.01.