Table 3.
Proportions of segmental (vs. syllabic) morphemes used in (Providence Corpus) child-directed speech.
Morpheme | One-proportion test results and confidence intervals (CI) | |||
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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 |