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Published in final edited form as: J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2011 Dec 23;55(1):55–69. doi: 10.1044/1092-4388(2011/09-0257)

Table 2.

Correlations among child variables.

Variable	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
1. ΔDVAR	—
2. WJ3 Passage Comprehension W (Fall, G1)	−.37^*	—
3. WJ3 Letter–Word Identification W (Fall, G1)	−.29^*	.78^**	—
4. WJ3 Passage Comprehension W (Spring, G1)	.43^**	.76^**	.69^***	—
5. WJ3 Letter–Word Identification W (Spring, G1)	−.36^*	.71^***	.80^***	.82^***	—
6. WJ3 Passage Comprehension W (Fall, G2)	−.23	.64^***	.64^**	.87^***	.88^***	—
7. WJ3 Letter–Word Identification W (Fall, G2)	.02	.72^***	.76^***	.83^***	.98^***	.83^***	—
8. WJ3 Passage Comprehension W (Spring, G2)	−.19	.58^**	.63^***	.79^***	.83^***	.85^***	.78^***	—
9. WJ3 Letter–Word Identification W (Spring, G2)	−.07	.61^**	.69^***	.75^***	.93^***	.87^***	.92^***	.87^***	—
10. WJ3 Sound Awareness W (Fall, G1)	−.33^*	.71^**	.69^***	.66^***	.78^***	.73^***	.80^***	.75^***	.86^***	—
11. DELV–S Morphosyntactic DS (Fall, G1)	−.26^†	.36^*	.32^*	.31^*	.41^**	.49^**	.37^*	.46^*	.49^**	.61^***	—
12. DELV–S Nonword Repetition DS (Fall, G1)	.40^**	.24	.19	.27	.30^*	.51^**	.38^*	.55^**	.54^**	.47^**	.43^**	—
13. WJ3 Picture Vocabulary W (Fall, G1)	.51^***	.40^**	.31^*	.21	.36^*	.32	.28	.28	.33	.44^***	.35^*	.43^**	—

Note. ΔDVAR = a percentage of dialect variation score, which represents children’s change in NMAE use from G1 through G2.

^†

p < .10.

p < .05.

^**

p < .01.

^***

p < .001.