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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Nov 12.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychol. 2006 Jan;42(1):98–116. doi: 10.1037/0012-1649.42.1.98

Table 2.

Descriptive Statistics for the Offline Vocabulary and Grammar Measures From the CDI and PPVT–R

Age Words understooda
Words producedb
Grammatical complexityc
M3Ld
PPVT–Re
M SD M SD M SD M SD M SD
12 months 82.5 62.3 9.6 10.8
15 months 166.2 88.7 28.9 30.7
18 months 95.6 101.4 1.1 4.4 1.8 1.0
21 months 208.5 158.9 5.2 7.4 3.1 1.7
25 months 391.7 176.8 13.5 11.5 5.5 3.1 13.7 5.4

Note. CDI = MacArthur–Bates Communicative Development Inventory; PPVT–R = Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test—Revised; M3L = mean of the three longest utterances; dash = data are not available.

a

Number of words reported as “understands” on the CDI: Words and Gestures (reported at 12 and 15 months).

b

Number of words reported as “understands and says” on the CDI: Words and Gestures (reported at 12 and 15 months) or CDI: Words and Sentences (reported at 18, 21, and 25 months).

c

Number of times the parent chose the second (more complex) example on the complexity section of the CDI: Words and Sentences (reported at 18, 21, and 25 months).

d

M3L reported on the CDI: Words and Sentences (reported at 18, 21, and 25 months).

e

Ceiling score minus errors from the PPVT–R, administered at 25 months.