Table 2.
Descriptive statistics for the pre-experiment measures.
| Final Analysis Set (n = 21) | All Participants (n = 30) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| M (SD) | Range | M (SD) | Range | |
| Age (months) | 36.43 (3.94) | 31-43 | 35.8 (4.04) | 30-43 |
| PPVT (SS) | 113.33 (9.59) | 95-136 | 113.07 (10.40) | 93-136 |
| Pronoun Elicitation Task | ||||
| Pronoun Error Rate (% error) | 8.86 (9.01) | 0-29.17 | 12.90 (14.63)a | 0-53.85 |
| TEGI Third Singular (%correct) | 62.86 (30.10) | 0-100 | 55 (35.62) | 0-100 |
| Supplementary Spontaneous | ||||
| Pronoun Error Rate (% error) | 8.24 (14.24) | 0-46.00 | 9.03 (13.69)a | 0-46.00 |
| Supplementary Spontaneous | ||||
| Third Singular (%correct) | 76.10 (32.35)b | 0-100 | 73.62 (35.55)c | 0-100 |
a
Four of the 30 children did not have more than 5 scorable responses in each of the two conditions in the paired priming task.
b
Three of the 21 children had no obligatory contexts for third person singular -s in their spontaneous speech samples.
c
Eight of the 30 children had no obligatory contexts for third person singular -s in their spontaneous speech samples.