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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Dec 13.
Published in final edited form as: Merrill Palmer Q (Wayne State Univ Press). 2007 Jan;53(1):131–154. doi: 10.1353/mpq.2007.0004

Table 2.

Means and Standard Deviations for MBCDI Summary Categories

MBCDI Summary Category M SD
Nouns 115.06 83.89
Predicates 42.51 42.78
Closed Class Words 17.04 20.82
Morphology 8.27 10.71
Total Vocabulary (nouns, predicates, closed class) 174.62 140.61
Mean Length of Utterance (MLU) 3.02 1.81

Note: N ranges from 43 to 47 for available MBCDI data.