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Table 2 Means and standard deviations for the number of words and grammatical category in the verbal reports to the interest questionnaire in function of group

From: Typical versus delayed speech onset influences verbal reporting of autistic interests

Means

AS-NoSOD

AS-SOD

Controls

AS-NoSOD/AS-SOD

AS-NoSOD/controls

AS-SOD/controls

Nouns

242.30 (158.58)

129.35 (76.83)

550.20 (842.86)

.007*

.12

.03*

Verbs

406.60 (320)

133.80 (87.88)

745.45 (914.69)

<.001*

.13

.006*

Adjectives

90.60 (49.17)

35.05 (20.02)

146 (210.75)

<.001*

.26

.02*

Adverbs

229 (212.24)

73.75 (51.13)

439.45 (533.18)

.003*

.11

.004*

Conjunctions

148.45 (144.51)

39.70 (29.81)

291.15 (385.39)

.002*

.13

.006*

Pronouns

237.60 (179.71)

82.05 (56.87)

391.70 (445.49)

<.001*

.17

.004*

  1. *p < .05 for Newman-Keuls post hoc comparisons