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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 26.
Published in final edited form as: Child Dev. 2011 Oct 17;82(6):1834–1849. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01660.x

Table 4. Descriptive Statistics for Properties of Children's Exposure to English and Spanish (N=29).

Measures Language exposure

English Spanish t


M (SD) Range Mode M (SD) Range Mode
Percent of timea 34.06% (23.25) 0 – 82 29.06% (24.77) 0 – 77 .62
Number of single language conversational contextsb 1.21 (1.86) 0 – 8 0 1.17 (1.77) 0 – 6 0 .06
Number of single language conversational partnersb .90 (1.45) 0 – 6 0 .45 (.83) 0 – 3 0 1.45
Number of different speakers as sources of exposureb 4.38 (2.37) 0 – 10 4 3.38 (2.19) 0 – 10 3 1.61
Percent of language exposure from native speakersc 44.03% (38.40) 0 – 100 83.16% (27.28) 0 – 100 -3.59**d
a

Counted in 30-minute blocks in which only one language was addressed to the child. In 37% of blocks, English and Spanish were both used.

b

Across the seven days of diary recording.

c

The percentages were calculated based on data from the 24 children who had both English-only and Spanish-only exposure.

d

**p = .002 (two-tailed), d = .73.