Table 4: Performance on each targeted syntactic structure.

HIV-positive (n=40) Controls (n=40)
M SD M SD t df p d
SVOa 3.98 0.16 4.00 0 -1 39 .323 0.13
Negation 3.7 0.6 3.98 0.16 -2.77 44.25 .008c 0.45
CLD-CD 3.55 0.89 3.88 0.4 -2.07 53.98 .043c 0.33
Coordination 4.00 0 3.95 0.22 1.43 39.00 .160 0.22
Complement Clauses 3.7 0.69 3.95 0.22 -2.19 46.96 .033c 0.34
Adverbials 3.9 0.3 3.95 0.22 -.84 78 .402 0.13
Relative Clauses 3.95 0.22 3.95 0.22 0 78 1.000 0
Wh-questions 3.95 0.22 3.98 0.16 -.58 78 .562 0.11

asubject-verb-object; bclitic left dislocation and clitic doubling (maximum score = 4); csignificant difference p < 0.05 (in bold)