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Table 6.

Pearson product-moment correlation coefficients between latent measures computed on scores obtained at 2^nd grade and observed measures obtained at test ages 36 months, 48 months and kindergarten, for children with CIs.

	Real-Word Utterances	Syllable Counting	Final C Choice	MLU	Conjunc- tions	Pronouns	Auditory Compreh.	Expressive Vocabulary
Phonological
Kindergarten	NA	.44^*	.36	.50^*	.31	.32	.63^**	.55^**
48 months	.24	NA	NA	.55 ^**	.35 ^*	.41 ^**	.37 ^*	.44 ^**
36 months	.15	NA	NA	.33^*	.24	.25	.19	.28
Morphosyntactic
Kindergarten	NA	.00	.25	.61 ^**	.61 ^**	.62 ^**	.42 ^*	.46 ^*
48 months	.38^*	NA	NA	.49 ^**	.30 ^*	.44 ^**	.49 ^**	.58 ^**
36 months	.18	NA	NA	.38 ^*	.34 ^*	.33 ^*	.36 ^*	.35 ^*

p < .05;

^**

p < .01;

^***

p < .001