Table 3.

Frequency (per thousand utterances) of cardinal and non-cardinal uses of number words and of non-cardinal compounds.

Types of uses	Number words
	For one		For two through nine
	Frequency per 1000 utterances		Frequency per 1000 utterances
	Mandarin	English	Mandarin	English
Cardinal with overt noun	21.37	3.48	10.3	2.56
Cardinal with ellipsis	20.60	20.53	3.59	1.00
Total cardinal	41.97	24.01	13.89	3.56
Count routine/count chants	1.71	0.57	4.23	1.08
Ordinals	0.09	0.00	0.05	0.00
Arabic numerals	0.63	0.15	2.77	0.41
Names	0.00	0.00	1.61	0.10
Total non-cardinal	2.43	0.72	8.66	1.59
Non-cardinal compounds	25.66	0.57	–	–