Table 6.

Means and standard deviations of E-MST scores by Southwestern and Northeastern children with typical language development.

	Southwestern		Northeastern
	(N = 38)		(N = 21)
Characteristic	M	SD	M	SD	p	d
Possessives	0.86	0.24	0.67	0.38	.043	0.64
Third-person singular	0.75	0.25	0.55	0.38	.041	0.66
Past tense	0.74	0.26	0.70	0.27	.657	0.15
Plurals	0.78	0.30	0.59	0.41	.056	0.55
Copula	0.69	0.27	0.60	0.30	.253	0.32
Negatives	0.86	0.27	0.67	0.35	.022	0.63
Passives	0.70	0.33	0.37	0.34	.001	0.99

Note. E-MST scores represent the proportion of correct items produced on the cloze task. Results were compared using an unequal variance t test.