Table 1b.

Illustrative examples of aspects of connected language.

	Semantic Units - Content	MLU and Verb Index - Syntax	Maze Index and Filled Pauses*
High	um well the little boy is standing on a on a stool that's about ready to tip over. he's uh raiding the cookie jar [=! laughs] giving it to his uh looks to be maybe his sister or friend. and uh um [pause] uh looks like she's enjoying receiving a cookie . mom is washing is washing the dishes and the the water is (pause) overflowing onto the onto the floor	um and the mother is washing dishes. but she has her back to the children that are trying to get into the cookie jar. and she's not paying attention to the water that's overflowing on the sink and going on the floor.	um there's coffee cups on the counter and a plate and um it looks like a very affluent neighborhood [=! laughs] outside the window <and I think she should> and she just looks like a like a Beaver Cleaver June Cleaver [=! laughs] kinda thing. how many woman um work in the kitchen in a in a dress and a shift with an apron ? please I use an apron <but it's not like it> (be)cause I'm too lazy to change my church clothes [=! laughs]. and it's because I'm just make such a disaster in the kitchen.
Low	we have uh a kitchen um with a uh presumably mother and two children. the children as children do are um raiding the cookie jar. and the mother is um washing dishes and has her problem with uh an overflowing sink. and um (pause) that's about it.	well the lady's wiping dishes. but the sink is overflowing. and uh kids are robbing a cookie jar .	I see a classic nineteen sixties house wife washing dishes wearing an apron. and the sink is overflowing. and water is going onto the floor. I see some children attempting to procure cookies out of the cookie jar with some success. but the young lad is standing on a stool&um and appears to be about to fall over backwards and possibly whack his head on the counter top which mom doesn't see.

^*For Maze Index and filled pauses, higher indicates worse performance.