Table 1.

Descriptive statistics of the preschool sample (N = 54).

Measure	M	SD
Age in months	69.52	4.17
Phonological awareness (raw score, max. = 16)	10.19	3.46
Phonemic awareness (raw score, max. = 24)	7.30	4.08
Pitch perception (raw score, max. = 8)	2.78	1.62
Contour perception (raw score, max. = 8)	4.48	2.09
Tempo perception (raw score, max. = 5)	1.54	1.21
Rhythm perception (raw score, max. = 12)	6.70	2.20
Rhythm reproduction (response to each item categorized on a scale from 0 to 4; max. = 40)	16.77	10.12