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 |
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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.
Number of words reported as “understands” on the CDI: Words and Gestures (reported at 12 and 15 months).
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).
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).
M3L reported on the CDI: Words and Sentences (reported at 18, 21, and 25 months).
Ceiling score minus errors from the PPVT–R, administered at 25 months.