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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Aug 23.
Published in final edited form as: J Child Lang. 2008 Oct 21;36(2):405–423. doi: 10.1017/S0305000908009008

TABLE 2. Number of words in the English and Chinese word samples displayed by the age at which more than 50% of children produced the word.

CDI AoA (Month) Verb Noun


English Chinese English Chinese
1;2 1
1;3 1
1;4 3 8 4
1;5 7 2 7
1;6 2 4 2
1;7 2 8 10 10
1;8 13 4 4
1;9 4 6 8 7
1;10 10 11 8 7
1;11 9 8 15 9
2;0 3 1
2;1 4 5 5 3
2;2 6 6 4
2;3 5 1 1
2;4
2;5 1 1
2;6 2 1 1
Total 44 66 75 59