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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Jul 30.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Linguist Phon. 2007 Feb;21(2):111–127. doi: 10.1080/02699200600709511

Table 5.

Mean percentage of word (over subjects) and standard deviation of each of the eight IPC factors occurred in all words of the indicated word class (content, function or all words). The data are shown separately for each age group (indicated in the left-hand column) and the results for Spanish are given in the top section and English (from Howell et al., in press) in the bottom section.

Spanish
Age Word Factor1 Factor2 Factor3 Factor4 Factor5 Factor6 Factor7 Factor8
G1 Content 27.88%
(4.62%)
74.18%
(8.47%)
3.22%
(2.14%)
0.00%
(0.00%)
19.15%
(12.56%)
29.38%
(4.74%)
25.37%
(9.00%)
12.26%
(4.29%)
Function 15.30%
(5.76%)
38.15%
(6.61%)
1.33%
(1.30%)
0.00%
(0.00%)
19.97%
(5.74%)
2.16%
(2.73%)
3.36%
(2.65%)
0.94%
(1.10%)
All words 21.38%
(4.03%)
55.16%
(5.96%)
2.18%
(1.06%)
0.00%
(0.00%)
19.50%
(8.36%)
14.93%
(2.99%)
13.62%
(4.73%)
6.18%
(2.05%)
G2 Content 27.47%
(10.97%)
78.12%
(6.97%)
2.67%
(1.48%)
0.00%
(0.00%)
9.90%
(7.17%)
33.16%
(5.74%)
25.09%
(8.50%)
12.81%
(4.61%)
Function 10.27%
(3.32%)
36.83%
(10.56%)
1.34%
(0.93%)
0.00%
(0.00%)
21.21%
(9.98%)
2.98%
(3.70%)
2.65%
(2.82%)
0.48%
(0.62%)
All words 18.73%
(5.13%)
57.08%
(7.28%)
1.99%
(0.85%)
0.00%
(0.00%)
15.61%
(7.87%)
17.80%
(2.82%)
13.60%
(5.56%)
6.54%
(2.61%)
G3 Content 25.22%
(6.90%)
73.09%
(8.86%)
3.54%
(2.79%)
0.00%
(0.00%)
22.95%
(16.36%)
30.08%
(6.84%)
26.85%
(9.66%)
14.43%
(5.15%)
Function 17.99%
(2.02%)
42.44%
(8.52%)
2.32%
(1.49%)
0.00%
(0.00%)
22.76%
(11.03%)
2.12%
(1.26%)
6.53%
(7.20%)
1.12%
(1.02%)
All words 21.15%
(3.06%)
56.37%
(6.90%)
2.82%
(1.29%)
0.00%
(0.00%)
22.73%
(13.29%)
14.72%
(3.20%)
15.72%
(7.49%)
7.15%
(2.88%)
All Content 27.11%
(6.71%)
74.69%
(8.27%)
3.19%
(2.18%)
0.00%
(0.00%)
18.28%
(13.27%)
30.32%
(5.56%)
25.69%
(8.84%)
12.93%
(4.54%)
Function 14.99%
(5.24%)
38.99%
(8.03%)
1.59%
(1.33%)
0.00%
(0.00%)
20.94%
(8.07%)
2.31%
(2.62%)
4.03%
(4.43%)
0.89%
(1.00%)
All words 20.79%
(4.07%)
55.85%
(6.32%)
2.31%
(1.10%)
0.00%
(0.00%)
19.55%
(9.76%)
15.45%
(3.16%)
14.16%
(5.60%)
6.50%
(2.36%)
English
Age Word Factor1 Factor2 Factor3 Factor4 Factor5 Factor6 Factor7 Factor8
G1 Content 25.50%
(5.50%)
65.09%
(6.61%)
3.04%
(1.62%)
0.46%
(0.78%)
68.45%
(8.30%)
4.92%
(1.50%)
30.48%
(6.37%)
16.40%
(4.30%)
Function 4.89%
(4.07%)
40.74%
(10.32%)
0.72%
(0.86%)
0.56%
(0.74%)
56.07%
(4.70%)
0.71%
(0.90%)
14.41%
(5.85%)
1.37%
(1.18%)
All words 15.04%
(3.03%)
52.60%
(5.55%)
1.88%
(1.09%)
0.51%
(0.49%)
62.07%
(4.55%)
2.78%
(0.84%)
22.01%
(4.29%)
8.59%
(1.95%)
G2 Content 31.30%
(5.42%)
66.59%
(7.78%)
4.74%
(2.27%)
0.25%
(0.64%)
72.44%
(8.69%)
7.76%
(3.12%)
31.74%
(7.45%)
17.00%
(4.72%)
Function 2.98%
(2.11%)
40.95%
(8.15%)
0.46%
(0.63%)
0.52%
(1.17%)
56.91%
(6.74%)
0.50%
(0.99%)
15.53%
(4.54%)
0.99%
(0.84%)
All words 16.35%
(3.52%)
53.20%
(5.13%)
2.45%
(1.04%)
0.42%
(0.76%)
64.22%
(5.23%)
3.97%
(1.64%)
23.07%
(4.62%)
8.54%
(2.48%)
G3 Content 27.14%
(3.44%)
73.00%
(4.97%)
4.48%
(1.58%)
1.08%
(0.51%)
70.20%
(3.48%)
12.62%
(4.15%)
34.53%
(3.89%)
16.41%
(2.81%)
Function 3.40%
(0.84%)
41.90%
(3.57%)
0.53%
(0.42%)
1.28%
(0.71%)
55.86%
(3.88%)
0.72%
(0.38%)
8.29%
(2.64%)
1.90%
(1.31%)
All words 14.01%
(1.21%)
55.93%
(3.24%)
2.30%
(0.68%)
1.20%
(0.54%)
62.31%
(2.70%)
6.11%
(1.98%)
20.06%
(2.69%)
8.40%
(1.73%)
All Content 28.10%
(5.59%)
67.54%
(7.32%)
4.03%
(2.01%)
0.53%
(0.73%)
70.39%
(7.65%)
7.84%
(4.13%)
31.92%
(6.42%)
16.63%
(4.14%)
Function 3.81%
(2.93%)
41.10%
(8.14%)
0.58%
(0.64%)
0.72%
(0.96%)
56.34%
(5.31%)
0.63%
(0.84%)
13.38%
(5.49%)
1.35%
(1.13%)
All words 15.29%
(3.01%)
53.62%
(5.00%)
2.20%
(1.00%)
0.64%
(0.68%)
62.94%
(4.50%)
4.03%
(1.94%)
21.95%
(4.18%)
8.52%
(2.08%)