Table 1.
Monolingual
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Bilingual
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Mean | Standard Deviation | Range | Mean | Standard Deviation | Range | |
Age in months | 61.72 | 4.86 | 54 – 70 | 61.60 | 3.85 | 54 – 70 |
Maternal Level of Education | 14.37 | 1.58 | 12 – 18 | 13.30 | 2.73 | 9 – 18 |
*a PPVT-IV | 103.80 | 9.02 | 88 – 125 | 86.05 | 17.55 | 68 – 120 |
b SPELT-III | 102.88 | 5.96 | 95 –116 | 107.33 | 8.50 | 99 – 116 |
MLUW | n/a | n/a | 6.43 | 1.32 | 4.33 – 9.67 | |
% C-Units w/Errors | n/a | n/a | 10.49 | 9.66 | 0 – 23 | |
Language Profile Score | 8.52 | .71 | 7 – 9 | −2.60 | 3.07 | −9 – 6 |
significantly different at p<.001
Data on the PPVT-IV were not available for 5 of the bilingual participants.
Three of the bilingual participants demonstrated their language skills via performance on the SPELT-III as opposed to the Frog Story.
Note: PPVT-IV= Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test- 4th edition; SPELT-III=Structured Photographic Expressive Language Test- III; MLUW=Mean Length of Utterance in Words, %C-Units w/Errors= Percentage of utterances in language sample with morphosyntactic errors; Language Profile Scores ranged from 9 to −9, with positive numbers representing more English exposure, and negative numbers representing more Spanish exposure.
Note: Bilingual speakers’ MLUW and % C-Units with Errors were taken from either their English or Spanish narratives, depending on which scores were higher.