. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2006 Apr 17.

Published in final edited form as: J Appl Dev Psychol. 2006;27(2):165–182. doi: 10.1016/j.appdev.2005.12.013

Table 5.

Association between average and below average maternal verbal ability and low and high risk linguistic environment

	Maternal PPVT > 85 (n = 83)	Maternal PPVT ≤ 85 (n = 71)	χ² (df = 1)
Low-risk linguistic environment (n = 119)	73	46	11.69^***
High-risk linguistic environment (n = 35)	10	25

^***

p ≤ .001.