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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 5.
Published in final edited form as: J Alzheimers Dis. 2016 Oct 18;54(4):1539–1550. doi: 10.3233/JAD-160252

Table 4.

Secondary analysis, adjusting for APOE-4 status.

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