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Published in final edited form as: Health Commun. 2020 Mar 2;36(8):1018–1028. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2020.1731781

Table 1.

Descriptive statistics and MANOVA results for linguistic features among patients with low and high communicative HL

Index	Low HL SMs mean (SD)	High HL SMs mean (SD)	F	η 2
Lexical decision response time (CW)	617.375 (5.768)	623.51 (6.133)	127.73	0.200
Attested lemmas (COCA magazine)	0.977 (0.021)	0.988 (0.01)	75.988	0.130
Determiner per nominal phrase	0.256 (0.07)	0.302 (0.053)	70.225	0.121
Passive auxiliary verbs per clause	0.024 (0.015)	0.035 (0.017)	51.706	0.092
Dependents per nominal subject	0.93 (0.279)	1.07 (0.22)	39.932	0.073
Number of associations (EAT, FW)	89.066 (2.088)	90.058 (1.694)	34.729	0.064
Argument overlap, paragraph	0.894 (0.142)	0.943 (0.077)	25.084	0.047
Adjective complements per clause	0.057 (0.031)	0.068 (0.022)	23.481	0.044
Phonological Neighborhood Frequency (FW)	8.879 (0.094)	8.907 (0.097)	10.937	0.021

CW = Content words, EAT =, FW = Function words