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Table 2 Means, standard deviations, and ranges of types of syllables and utterances

From: Infants later diagnosed with autism have lower canonical babbling ratios in the first year of life

 

6 Months

12 Months

HR-ASD

HR-Neg

LR

HR-ASD

HR-Neg

LR

Recording duration

13.14 (2.95), 8.08–18.80

13.06 (3.16), 7.07–23.25

13.35 (3.72), 7.87–28.54

20.33 (6.18), 7.79–38.31

20.23 (4.99), 8.90–37.49

19.27 (3.99), 9.42–32.78

Number of speech-like vocalizations

25.78 (19.70), 3–81

20.87 (16.01), 2–91

17.84 (13.82), 2–83

31.25 (26.78), 6–185

34.78 (17.82), 2–177

32.52 (14.41), 9–127

Number of syllables

49.91 (38.41), 7–178

36.60 (32.57), 2–201

34.34 (33.69), 2–181

54.73 (40.40), 8–584

64.97 (33.74), 4–309

59.07 (29.95), 10–353

Number of canonical syllables

1.65 (2.29), 0–12

1.09 (1.87), 0–11

1.24 (2.37), 0–14

9.28 (10.58), 0–130

16.01 (15.82), 0–175

14.17 (14.84), 0–203

Canonical babbling ratio

0.03 (0.04), 0–0.17

0.02 (0.04), 0–0.20

0.02 (0.03), 0–0.12

0.16 (0.12), 0–0.42

0.22 (0.15), 0–0.63

0.22 (0.16), 0–0.58

Number of reduplicated utterances

0.10 (0.31), 0–2

0.07 (0.24), 0–1

0.12 (0.36), 0–2

0.82 (1.07), 0–9

1.63 (2.09), 0–24

1.62 (2.27), 0–20

Number of variegated utterances

0.14 (0.31), 0–1

0.03 (0.14), 0–1

0.05 (0.20), 0–1

0.96 (1.68), 0–21

1.87 (2.81), 0–35

1.46 (2.53), 0–38

  1. All means and standard deviations (except recording duration and canonical babbling ratio) are presented as counts per 10 min, to account for differing recording times. Raw ranges are presented to provide an accurate depiction of the size of the samples of vocalizations