TABLE 6.

Correlation between children’s age and number of different lexical items.

Variables	1	2	3	4	5
Age	–
Noun∧	0.415**	–
Verb∧	0.282*	0.775**	–
Adjective∧	0.451**	0.748**	0.729**	–
Closed class words∧	0.103	0.792**	0.805**	0.727**	–

*p < 0.05.

**p < 0.01.

^∧Number of utterances expressing that particular lexical item.