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. 2023 Nov 10;14:1234525. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1234525

TABLE 3.

Different language measures of child utterances across age group.

Age group 1 Age group 2 Age group 3
Mean S.D. Range Mean S.D. Range Mean S.D. Range
MLU 2.73 0.55 1.74–4.3 3.61 0.82 2.26–5.86 3.78 0.77 2.14–5.63
NDW 113.61 27.46 64–179 168.26 40.45 102–265 163.05 45.26 108–258
TNW 507.78 186.32 192–883 679.14 272.83 216–1446 537.09 249.7 277–1106
TTR 0.24 0.06 0.14–0.38 0.27 0.07 0.15–0.50 0.33 0.07 0.20–0.46
TNU 136.39 46.02 36–193 142.5 42.22 62–241 116.59 40.69 62–206
vocD 33.5 8.53 15.9–47.0 41.1 12 16.0–64.7 48.3 6.93 34.6–60.2

MLU, mean length of utterances in word; NDW, number of different words; TNW, total number of words; TTR, type token ratio; TNU, total number of utterances.