Behavioural Neurology / 2015 / Article / Tab 1 / Research Article
Processing Sentences with Literal versus Figurative Use of Verbs: An ERP Study with Children with Language Impairments, Nonverbal Impairments, and Typical Development Table 1 Characteristics of participants included in the behavioral experiment. Standard deviations in parentheses.
SLI NVLD -testControl -test11 11 15 Male 9 10 12 Chronological age (yrs) = 9.74 = 11.12 = .456 = 10.24All s > .682 (2.3) (2.9) (2.74) Full scale IQ = 94.09 = 94.0 > .999 = 112.8SLI versus control; = .005 (8.83) (8.93) (18.68) NVLD versus control; = .004 Verbal IQ = 84.82 = 106.64 = .005 = 108.27SLI versus control; < .001 (13.03) (10.32) (19.02) NVLD versus control; = .960 Performance IQ = 105.91 = 82.18 = .002 = 114.8SLI versus control; = .292 (9.93) (7.6) (20.29) NVLD versus control; < .001 Clitic repetition ( -score) = .034 = .967 = .004 = 1.06SLI versus control; = .001 (1.1) (.31) (.16) NVLD versus control; = .921 Vocabulary subtest = 6.64 = 11.64 = .001 = 10.0SLI versus control; = .015 (2.38) (2.91) (3.16) NVLD versus control; = .335 Block design subtest = 10.36 = 6.27 = .004 = 11.8SLI versus control; = .407 (1.69) (1.9) (3.78) NVLD versus control; < .001 Object assembly subtest = 9.82 = 5.91 = .006 = 10.73SLI versus control; = .682 (3.34) (2.17) (2.65) NVLD versus control; < .001