Table 3.
Regular and irregular past tense marking during spontaneous language samples.
| Group | Regular past tense
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Irregular past tense
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | Nonstandard | Zero marked | % Markeda | Standard | Nonstandard | Zero marked | % Marked | |
| LSES | 5.93b (4.64) | 0.60 (0.91) | 1.47 (1.73) | 85% (13.96) | 23.60 (16.34) | 3.47 (3.50) | 3.40 (3.34) | 87% (7.83) |
| 89 | 9 | 22 | — | 354 | 52 | 51 | — | |
| AM | 7.33 (4.72) | 1.40 (2.10) | 1.27 (1.28) | 88% (12.09) | 32.87 (17.66) | 3.47 (4.45) | 3.40 (3.89) | 93% (7.89) |
| 110 | 21 | 19 | — | 493 | 52 | 51 | — | |
| LM | 7.20 (7.94) | 0.20 (0.41) | 3.53 (3.31) | 66% (30.84) | 27.27 (18.66) | 3.00 (3.12) | 3.33 (2.53) | 88% (10.79) |
| 108 | 3 | 53 | — | 409 | 45 | 50 | — | |
a
Calculated from (standard marked + nonstandard marked)/(standard marked + nonstandard marked + zero marked).
b
The first row reflects the group average, the second reflects the standard deviation (seen in parentheses), and the third, when given, reflects the sum of the responses. Em dashes indicate data not applicable.