Table 6.

Across-study comparison of 6-year-olds’ IPSyn scores by dialect.

Dialect	Total minus question/negationa		Nounb		Verbc		Sentence structured
	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD
Nonmainstream English (Current study)e
SLI (n = 10)	76.90	5.33	20.70	1.06	27.50	3.24	28.70	2.58
Typically developing (n = 32)	76.75	7.31	20.25	1.32	27.31	2.91	29.19	4.28
Mainstream English (Hewitt et al., 2004)
SLI (n = 27)	74.48	7.64	20.11	1.18	27.33	3.86	26.77	3.93
Typically developing (n = 27)	79.14	5.08	20.51	.89	29.00	2.56	29.40	3.55

^aMaximum score = 92;

^bMaximum score = 22;

^cMaximum score = 32;

^dMaximum score = 38.

^eScores calculated using each child’s full samples to best align with the samples of Hewitt et al. (2004).