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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jul 7.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Sci. 2008 Nov;11(6):F31–F39. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00768.x

Table 2.

Measures of maternal talk during play session at 18 months

Maternal talk M SD Range
Number of utterances 210.6 58.0 67–350
Word tokens 609.1 219.8 168–1204
Word types 110.5 26.6 54–191
MLUa 2.9 0.5 2.2–4.4

Note:

a

Mean length of utterance (in words).