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. 2023 Apr 11;4(2):198–220. doi: 10.1162/nol_a_00092

Table 2. .

Behavioral and neuroimaging task performance by language (Ms and SDs)

  English task Chinese task Spanish task
Score Score r Partial rc Score r Partial rc
Oral Language Measures
Vocabulary 149.6 (29.9) 54.8 (29.2) 0.15 0.03 67.7 (19.4) 0.70*** 0.46***
Phonological awareness 22.6 (7.5) 22.0 (9.6) 0.84*** 0.79*** 13.6 (6.2) 0.80*** 0.79***
Morphological awareness 24.2 (10.8) 13.5 (6.3) 0.52*** 0.27**** 27.9 (13.3) 0.66*** 0.59***
 
Literacy Measures
Single word reading 48.6 (15.6) 17.44 (13.8) 0.44*** 0.14 42.8 (20.1) 0.67*** 0.47***
Reading comprehension 26.0 (8.3) / / / 19.9 (7.9) 0.69*** 0.44***
Sentence reading fluency 37.2 (18.6) 11.93 (7.7) 0.54*** 0.36*** 26.1 (15.7) 0.76*** 0.69***

Note. r = the English-Spanish or English-Chinese bivariate correlation of the respective language and literacy measure. c = partial correlation controlling for age. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.