Table 4.
Mean (SD) number of typical items produced by children in English and Spanish categories.
| Group | Taxonomic category |
Slot-filler category |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Animals | Clothes | Food | Farm animals | Zoo animals | Winter clothes | Lunch food | |
| Older children | |||||||
| English | 3.20 (1.21) | 2.87 (0.83) | 1.53 (0.92) | 3.40 (1.30) | 3.33 (0.98) | 2.20 (1.08) | 1.87 (1.30) |
| Spanish | 2.47 (1.36) | 1.60 (0.91) | 1.33 (1.18) | 2.00 (1.07) | 2.47 (1.55) | 1.73 (1.16) | 1.40 (0.99) |
| Younger children | |||||||
| English | 2.47 (1.41) | 2.47 (1.13) | 1.00 (0.85) | 3.93 (0.96) | 3.33 (1.11) | 1.67 (0.62) | 1.47 (1.06) |
| Spanish | 1.87 (1.30) | 1.33 (0.90) | 1.00 (1.25) | 1.33 (1.11) | 2.27 (1.67) | 1.47 (0.74) | 1.27 (1.16) |