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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 5. Correlations between Relative Amount of Exposure and Properties of Language Exposure, Calculated for English and Spanish (N=29).

Measures	1	2	3	4	5
English

1. Percent time in English-only blocks	1	.589^**	.500^**	.517^**	.015
2. Number of English-only conversational contexts		1	.552^**	.404^*	.009
3. Number of English-only conversational partners			1	.564^**	-.013
4. Number of different sources of English				1	-.081
5. Percent of English-only blocks with from native speakers^a					1

Spanish

1. Percent time in Spanish-only blocks	1	.774^*	.233	.494^**	.104
2. Number of Spanish-only conversational contexts		1	.408^*	.294	.163
3. Number of Spanish-only conversational partners			1	.355^*	-.173
4. Number of different sources of Spanish				1	-.581^**
5. Percent of Spanish-only blocks with native speakers^b					1

^a

N=27.

^b

N=26.

^*

p < .05, one-tailed.

^**

p < .01, one-tailed.