. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2013 Jul 23;56(5):1701–1714. doi: 10.1044/1092-4388(2013/12-0188)

Table 3.

Mean Length of Utterance (MLU) and Finite Verb Morphology Composite (FVMC) results. Group means (and standard deviations) along with the range are shown to illustrate the degree of variability present in each group.

		Full Group

Group	Lang Sample	3-year-olds	6-year-olds
HH	MLU	2.33 (.66)	4.08 (.93)
		1.24–4.6	2.04–5.43
	FVMC	.54 (.26)	.83 (.20)
		.07–1	.28–1
NH	MLU	2.57 (.44)	4.69 (.76)
		1.44–3.27	3.0–5.83
	FVMC	.74 (.25)	.98 (.02)
		.17–1	.93–1

		Good Articulation Group

HH	MLU	2.54 (.66)	4.23 (.86)
		1.61 – 4.6	2.66 – 5.43
	FVMC	.62 (.24)	.88 (.14)
		.07–1	.28–1
NH	MLU	2.58 (.45)	4.63 (.74)
		1.44–3.27	3.0–5.83
	FVMC	.76 (.22)	.98 (.02)
		.27–1	.93–1

Good Articulation Group = children with word final s, z ,t ,d > 75% correct