Table 1.

Correlation of oral linguistic variables and working memory in preschool children (Pearson criterion).

Linguistic Variables	Visual Working Memory	Verbal Working Memory
semantic completeness	0.23 **	0.50 **
semantic adequacy А ***	−0.18 **	−0.41 **
semantic adequacy B ***	−0.11	−0.23 **
general semantic adequacy ***	−0.16 *	−0.41 **
Programming ***	−0.18 **	−0.45 **
story time	0.06	0.06
speech pace	0.15 *	0.27 **
number of words	0.16 **	0.25 **
number of simple sentences	0.15 *	0.20 **
narrative structure	0.26 **	0.43 **
narrative type	0.25**	0.49 **
Macrostructure (average)	0.16	0.34
grammatical accuracy ***	−0.12 *	−0.31 **
number of syntagmas	0.15 *	0.22 **
lexical accuracy ***	−0.08	−0.32 **
Microstructure (average)	0.12	0.28

* p < 0.05 (2-tailed); ** p < 0.01 (2-tailed), statistically significant correlations in bold., *** Please note that high scores indicate low performance.