Table 1.
Narrative texts | Argumentative texts | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Narrative 1 | Narrative 2 | Argument 1 | Argument 2 | ||
Quoted from Book | Marcovaldo | The bar beneath the sea | Sapiens | The language instinct | |
Texts | N. Words | 1335 | 1158 | 1283 | 1183 |
Duration (s) | 458 | 402 | 464 | 431 | |
Segmentsa | N. Segments | 58 | 50 | 54 | 52 |
N. Wordsb | 23 ± 12 | 23 ± 10 | 24 ± 12 | 23 ± 11 | |
Duration (s)b | 7.9 ± 4.1 | 8.0 ± 3.4 | 8.6 ± 4.3 | 8.3 ± 4.1 |
aEach segment included one or more complete sentences, which ended with a period, question mark, exclamation mark, colon, or semi-colon. In the argumentative texts, each segment included one sentence. As the sentences in the narrative texts (mean ± SD: 15 ± 8 words) were on average longer than those in the argumentative texts (mean ± SD: 23 ± 11 words), in the narrative texts, each segment might include one more sentence.
bmean ± standard deviation.