Processing Sentences with Literal versus Figurative Use of Verbs: An ERP Study with Children with Language Impairments, Nonverbal Impairments, and Typical Development

Table 2

Characteristics of participants included in the ERP experiment. Standard deviations in parentheses.

	SLI	NVLD	-test	Control	-test
	12	11		13
Male	10	9		11
Chronological age (yrs)	= 10.23	= 10.61	= .948	= 10.43	All s > .984
	(2.75)	(3.12)		(2.9)
Full scale IQ	= 95.08	= 95.73	= .992	= 115.5	SLI versus control; = .001
	(9.09)	(7.39)		(18.29)	NVLD versus control; = .002
Verbal IQ	= 85.83	= 107.91	= .002	= 111.23	SLI versus control; < .001
	(12.91)	(9.08)		(18.71)	NVLD versus control; = .841
Performance IQ	= 106.5	= 84	= .001	= 116.31	SLI versus control; = .203
	(9.69)	(5.95)		(20.60)	NVLD versus control; < .001
Clitic repetition (-score)	= .034	= .966	= .006	= 1.05	SLI versus control; = .002
	(1.1)	(.31)		(.17)	NVLD versus control; = .944
Vocabulary subtest	= 6.75	= 11.55	= .001	= 10.23	SLI versus control; = .015
	(2.3)	(3.01)		(3.34)	NVLD versus control; = .524
Block design subtest	= 10.5	= 6.36	= .001	= 12.54	SLI versus control; = .106
	(1.68)	(1.86)		(3.28)	NVLD versus control; < .001
Object assembly subtest	= 9.92	= 6.36	= .011	= 10.85	SLI versus control; = .678
	(3.2)	(2.0)		(2.82)	NVLD versus control; = .001