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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Lang Commun Disord. 2015 Feb 19;50(4):516–528. doi: 10.1111/1460-6984.12152

Table 3.

Proportions of segmental (vs. syllabic) morphemes used in (Providence Corpus) child-directed speech.

Morpheme One-proportion test results and confidence intervals (CI)
Total tokens Proportion of segmental allomorphs 95% CI p-value
Past -ed 467 0.83 (0.79, 0.86) *p<.001
Present -s 698 0.95 (0.93, 0.96) *p<.001
Possessive -s 242 0.90 (0.86, 0.94) *p<.001