. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 5.

Published in final edited form as: J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2002 Jun;45(3):505–518. doi: 10.1044/1092-4388(2002/040)

Table 6.

Correlation coefficients between rates of use based on set of 35 patterns and rates of use based on reduced sets of patterns.

	Number of patterns in set^a
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Counts of All 35 Patterns
Groups Combined	.75	.88	.88	.90	.90	.91	.93	.94	.94	.96
SWE Group Only	.79	.81	.88	.88	.87	.91	.93	.96	.96	.97
SAAE Group Only	.36	.66	.66	.66	.73	.74	.80	.84	.84	.88

Patterns included in the reduced set are, in order: zero be, zero regular third, omission of auxiliary do, S-V agreement with don’t, zero irregular past, multiple negation, S-V agreement with be, alternative pronoun, zero regular past, appositive.