Table 1.

Percentages of speech segments in each category across tasks

		Preschoolers (Current Study)		Infants (Meyer et al., 2011)
Utterance Type	Example	Jungle Toy	Cups/Rings
Action Description	Now turn it over	8.4%	9.1%	57.3%
Goal Setting	So we’ll put this right here	10.9%	7.5%	7.3%
Completion	Good job	2.2%	1.1%	1.9%
Attention Getting	Ohh look at that	4.2%	4.3%	21.4%
Mixed/all others	I don’t know about that	74.4%	78.1%	12.2%