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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cognition. 2017 Mar 6;163:42–55. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2017.02.010

Table 1.

Mean scores (standard deviation) for background measures by language group in Study 1.

Monolingual Bilingual

N 28 31
Age (years) 19.1 (1.5) 19.3 (1.9)
Shipley Vocabulary 102.4 (9.1) 100.6 (12.9)
Shipley Reasoning 102.8 (11.7) 103.8 (10.7)
SES (parents’ education) 3.2 (1.1) 3.3 (1.3)
L2 proficiency (%)
 Speaking* 2.8 (6.3) 81.8 (16.9)
 Understanding* 5.1 (11.7) 89.2 (12.3)
 Reading* 0.6 (2.8) 54.7 (33.8)
 Writing* 0.6 (2.8) 43.1 (32.7)
Frequency of use (%)
 L1* 95 (10.1) 57 (11.7)
 L2* 5 (10.1) 43 (11.7)
Control trial RTs (ms)
 Nonverbal 481 (69) 482 (67)
 Verbal 532 (80) 523 (72)

Asterisks indicate significant differences between groups.