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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 25.
Published in final edited form as: J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2001 Feb;44(1):207–223. doi: 10.1044/1092-4388(2001/018)

Table 3.

Rate of nonmainstream pattern use.a

SAAE SWE
SLI 6N 4N SLI 6N 4N
M .37 .31 .34 .18 .09 .13
SD .13 .09 .13 .08 .04 .06
General rangeb .24–.60 .19–.47 .22–.67 .06–.22 .03–.18 .05–.25
Outliersc male .17 none female .11 male .42 none none
female .17
a

Sum of nonmainstream pattern use divided by total number of complete and intelligible utterances.

b

The general ranges are based on 89 of the 93 children. Excluded are the 4 children who are presented as outliers.

c

Four children are presented as outliers because their rates of nonmainstream dialect fell outside those of their same-dialect child group; the gender of each outlier is provided for descriptive purposes.