Table 4.
Frequency (per thousand utterances) of use of number words with easy and with difficult units of counting.
Type of unit of counting | Number words |
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For one | For two through nine | |||
Frequency per 1000 utterances |
Frequency per 1000 utterances |
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Mandarin | English | Mandarin | English | |
Easy | 19.44 | 3.29 | 7.59 | 2.19 |
Difficult | 1.93 | 0.19 | 2.64 | 0.37 |