Linguistic camouflage in girls with autism spectrum disorder

Table 5 Pairwise comparisons between girls and boys with ASD on seven linguistic features (mean and standard deviation (SD))

	Girls	SD	Boys	SD	z	Sig.
Total word count	1116.69	533.25	1025.51	472.91	−0.61	p = 0.54
Filled pause rate	2.04%	1.5%	2.27%	1.7%	−0.20	p = 0.84
Speech rate	0.33	0.04	0.33	0.06	−0.50	p = 0.62
Num turns	141.56	45.09	138.08	58.16	−0.43	p = 0.67
Duration of turns	436.86	184.99	439.71	195.14	−0.20	p = 0.84
Latency to respond	0.83	0.45	0.88	0.33	−0.93	p = 0.35
Pitch variation	2.22	1.89	2.12	0.83	−0.81	p = 0.42

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