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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Child Dev. 2017 Feb 1;89(4):1247–1267. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12731

Table 1.

Maternal word use for each child.

outcome child c1 d1 f1 i1 s1 s2 v1 v2 mean
count of word types 1792 1875 1878 1915 1566 2047 1872 1581 1816
count of word tokens 35780 34436 32397 39254 41408 46995 37178 26311 36720
type:token ratio .050 .054 .058 .049 .038 .044 .050 .060 .050

Note. For each of the 8 children, the number of words that the mother said. Types were based on the orthographic rendering in the corpus after the cleaning-up steps reported in the text.