Table 1.

Descriptive statistics (n = 80).

Variable	n	%	M (SD)
Child gender
Male	37	46.2
Female	43	53.8
Child age (months)	80	100	26.34 (3.38)
Mother years of school
<HS degree	27	33.8
HS degree	28	35.0
>HS degree	25	31.3
Father years of school
<HS degree	15	18.7
HS degree	44	55.0
>HS degree	21	26.3
Father ethnicity
African American	60	75.0
Latino	20	25.0
Father depression score	80	100	17.23 (12.80)
Father # of utterances	80	100	284.59 (171.64)
Father language quality	80	100	−.006 (.998)
Child # of utterances	80	100	61.53 (35.19)
Child MLU	80	100	1.77 (.51)
Child types	80	100	45.04 (24.19)

Notes: <HS degree, completed less than high school/did not complete high school; HS degree, high school degree or equivalent (e.g. GED); >HS degree, some college or college/graduate/technical degree; MLU, grammatical complexity; types, vocabulary diversity. Father’s language quality is a composite measure of father’s grammatical complexity and father’s vocabulary diversity.