TABLE 4.
Descriptive data for the temporal distributions of matched verb-action instances by group and agents.
Figure | Group | Agents | Mean (SD) | Mode | Skewness (SE) | Kurtosis (SE) |
Figure 2 | Group 1A | All | 1.9 (18.3) | 0 | −0.01(0.08) | 1.64 (0.16) |
Group 2B | All | 3.2 (19.2) | 0 | 0.14 (0.07) | 1.67 (0.14) | |
Figure 3 | Group 1A | Mother verb–Mother action | 0.78 (19.3) | 0 | −0.01(0.11) | 1.22 (0.22) |
Group 1B | Mother verb–Child action | 3.48 (16.7) | 0 | 0.08 (0.13) | 2.54 (0.25) | |
Figure 4 | Group 2A | Mother verb–Mother action | 4.11 (18.3) | 0 | 0.23 (0.10) | 1.90 (0.21) |
Group 2B | Mother verb–Child action | 2.82 (19.8) | 0 | −0.08(0.10) | 1.47 (0.21) | |
Group 2C | Child verb–Child action | −0.22(18.4) | 0 | 0.32 (0.22) | 2.72 (0.43) | |
Group 2D | Child verb–Mother action | 4.26 (21.4) | 0 | 0.65(0.24 | 0.92 (0.47) |
Participants, sessions, and situations are aggregated. Skewness values between −0.5 and 0.5 indicate that the distribution is approximately symmetric; kurtosis values greater than +1 indicate that the distribution is too peaked.