TABLE 1.
Descriptive values for language experience and language knowledge scores
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| M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | |
| Age months | 81·86 | (5·53) | 105·69 | (5·79) | 89·86 | (12·58) |
| AoEE | 1·96 | (1·92) | 1·78 | (1·96) | 1·90 | (1·93) |
| Current English Input/Output | 67 | (29) | 73 | (24) | 69 | (27) |
| Current Spanish Input/Output | 33 | (29) | 27 | (24) | 31 | (27) |
| BESA Semantics English | 95·58 | (18·62) | 94·81 | (23·33) | 95·32 | (20·31) |
| BESA MS English | 92·04 | (25·17) | 103·35 | (18·86) | 95·83 | (23·84) |
| BESA Composite English | 93·81 | (19·96) | 99·08 | (16·76) | 95·58 | (19·10) |
| BESA Semantics Spanish | 76·19 | (24·35) | 45·87 | (48·43) | 66·01 | (37·21) |
| BESA MS Spanish | 70·14 | (29·75) | 52·45 | (33·80) | 64·20 | (32·25) |
| BESA Composite Spanish | 73·17 | (25·98) | 49·16 | (39·06) | 65·11 | (32·98) |
NOTE: AoEE = Age of English Exposure; Current English Input/Output and Current Spanish Input/Output are the average percentages of input and output and are inversely related; BESA scores are standard scores with a mean (M) of 100 and standard deviation (SD) of 15.