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. 2014 Feb 20;8:83. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00083

Table 1.

French-German bilingualism characteristics of participants (N = 14).

Variable French
German
p value (uncorrected)
mean SD mean SD
Age of acquisition (years) 1.61 2.21 0.93 1.87 0.43
Lived in region speaking (years) 16.65 6.33 11.92 9.34 0.19
Family (%)
First language mother 14 35 79 41 0.01*
Language spoken with mother 50 50 57 49 0.78
First language father 50 50 50 50 1.00
Language spoken with father 58 49 46 50 0.55
Childhood (Age < 7 years) (%)
Language taught in school 48 43 52 43 0.88
Language spoken with peers at school 52 44 41 43 0.65
Language spoken with family 45 32 45 32 1.00
Present (%)
Spoken at work 52 26 48 26 0.81
Watching TV/listening radio 30 22 66 24 0.01*
Speaking with friends 59 22 38 21 0.09
Reading books 43 24 54 26 0.45
Mental arithmetic 64 35 27 31 0.04*
Learned (%)
Learned in school only 7 26 0 0 -
Learned “on road” only 0 0 0 0 -
Learned at workplace only 0 0 0 0 -
Self-evaluation (%)
Speaking 94 6 92 11 0.57
Comprehension 97 4 96 5 0.82
Reading 90 11 90 12 0.91
Writing 77 22 80 17 0.64
Computer-based evaluation (min = 0; max = 1000)
DIALANG score 852 124 864 59 0.77

SD, standard deviation; *p < 0.05.