Table 2 .

Descriptive measures of stories by group and hearing experience

	Number of C-units	MLCU- Words	MLCU-Morphemes
CI
3 Years	22.56 (7.07)	3.80 (1.49)	4.20 (1.58)
4 Years	23.22 (6.18)	4.84 (1.32)	5.20 (1.37)
5 Years	22.11 (5.88)	4.85 (0.97)	5.30 (1.14)
TD
3 Years	32.11 (4.34)	4.75 (1.14)	5.39 (1.25)
4 Years	34.78 (3.38)	5.14 (0.45)	5.65 (0.57)
5 Years	34.56 (6.21)	5.27 (0.92)	5.79 (0.99)

Note. CI = children with cochlear implants; TD = typically developing children; MLCU = Mean length of C-units