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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 3.
Published in final edited form as: Ear Hear. 2006 Jun;27(3):286–298. doi: 10.1097/01.aud.0000215973.76912.c6

Table 4.

Intercorrelations Between Language Measures

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
1 CDI Vocabulary ----- .83 .87 .76 .59 .87 .67 .84 .71 .79 .79
2 Irregular Words ----- .87 .75 .51 .68 .64 .74 .77 .81 .68
3 Sentence Complexity ----- .80 .51 .77 .64 .78 .73 .81 .70
4 Longest Sentence ----- .52 .69 .63 .66 .73 .72 .69
5 SECS Receptive ----- .70 .54 .57 .52 .53 .61
6 Expressive ------ .71 .83 .70 .75 .83
7 CLAN Total Words ----- .84 .85 .82 .92
8 Different Root Words ----- .85 .84 .89
9 Different Bound Morphemes ----- .84 .89
10 Bound Morphemes ---- .83
11 Mean Length of Utterance ----

Note: CLAN = Child Language Analysis (MacWhinney, 1995); CDI = Communicative Development Inventory: CDI (Words and Sentences form; Fenson et al., 1993); SECS = Scales of Early Communication Skills for Hearing Impaired Children (Moog & Geers, 1975); All correlations significant at p<.001