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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Child Lang. 2009 Sep 3;37(4):817–840. doi: 10.1017/S0305000909990055

Table 1.

Mean, standard deviation (SD) and range of vocabulary in Spanish and English

Mean (SD) Range
Spanish
 Rawa 281.3 (194.7) 3 – 676
 Percentileb 29.4 (28.7) 1 – 99
English
 Rawa 271.8 (204.3) 17 – 667
 Percentilec 18.7 (25.4) 1 – 97
Total Vocabulary Score (TVS)
 Rawd 553.2 (242.0) 167 – 978
 Percentile (Spanish)b 66.1 (33.2) 13 – 99
 Percentile (English)c 58.1 (38.7) 7 – 99
Total Conceptual Vocabulary (TCV)
 Rawe 461.8 (166.9) 158 – 701
 Percentile (Spanish)b 55.1 (29.1) 13 – 99
 Percentile (English)c 41.6 (30.3) 10 – 99
a

Number of words reported as “comprende y dice” or “understands & says” on the CDI: Inventario II (Spanish) and CDI: Words & Sentences (English)

b

Percentile score based on norms in Jackson-Maldonado et al. (2003)

c

Percentile score based on norms in Fenson et al. (2006)

d

Number of words produced reported in Spanish + English

e

Number of concepts reported in Spanish Only + English Only + both Spanish and English, counting translation equivalents only once (adapted from Pearson & Fernández, 1994, using translation equivalents defined in the CDI Scoring program [Marchman, 2004]).