Table 4.
pMCI | CH | p-value | Cohen's d | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Semantic Content and Lexical Richness | Adjusted Mean(SE) | Adjusted Mean(SE) | ||
Propositional Idea Density | .44(.01) | .46(.01) | 0.028 | 0.58 |
Pronouns (proportion) | .35(.02) | .35(.02) | 0.96 | 0.06 |
Verbs (proportion) | .55(.01) | .54(.01) | 0.81 | 0.06 |
Semantic Units (possible range 0 -23) | 12.7(.44) | 14.5(.44) | 0.008 | 0.65 |
Semantic Unit Idea Density | .14(.01) | .15(.01) | 0.38 | 0.69 |
Unique Words (“types”) | 61.1(3.3) | 71.6(3.3) | 0.03 | 0.52 |
Total Number of Words (“tokens”) | 97.3(8.4) | 116.8(8.4) | 0.12 | 0.37 |
Moving Average Type-Token Ratio | .94(.004) | .95(.004) | 0.091 | 0.43 |
Syntactic Complexity | ||||
Verb Index (Total verbs/utterances) | 2.4(.1) | 2.4(.1) | 0.99 | 0.3 |
Mean Length of Utterance | 11.2(.4) | 11.9(.4) | 0.2 | 0.39 |
Speech Fluency | ||||
Filled pauses (proportion) | .35(.06) | .43(.06) | 0.33 | 0.22 |
Total Mazes (proportion) | .70(.15) | .93(.15) | 0.28 | 0.45 |