Table 5.
Pearson product-moment correlation coefficients between latent measures computed on scores obtained at 2nd grade and observed measures obtained at test ages 36 months, 48 months and kindergarten, for children with NH.
| Real-Word Utterances |
Syllable Counting |
Final C Choice |
MLU | Conjunc- tions |
Pronouns | Auditory Compreh. |
Expressive Vocabulary |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phonological | ||||||||
| Kindergarten | NA | .34 | .47* | .36 | .00 | .30 | .35 | .05 |
| 48 months | .00 | NA | NA | .00 | .30 | .00 | .18 | .26 |
| 36 months | .00 | NA | NA | .18 | .17 | .00 | .00 | .19 |
| Morphosyntactic | ||||||||
| Kindergarten | NA | .34 | .21 | .10 | .08 | .28 | .29 | .11 |
| 48 months | .16 | NA | NA | .11 | .18 | .04 | .05 | .00 |
| 36 months | .27 | NA | NA | .05 | .47* | .21 | .31 | .05 |
*
p < .05