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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jul 10.
Published in final edited form as: Cogn Sci. 2016 Nov 21;41(Suppl 1):73–95. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12409

Table 2.

Means, standard deviation, and ranges for late talker and early talkers on raw counts, as proportion of total noun vocabulary, and as within-category proportions for each of these five types of words: solid-shape, solid-material, solid-both, nonsolid-material, and nonsolid-both.

Counts

SolSh SolMat SolB NsolMat NsolB
MCDI 120 25 63 8 6
Late Talkers M:26.93/SD:24.16 M: 5.2/SD: 5.15 M: 12.6/SD: 12 M: 1.8/SD: 1.97 M: 1.93/SD: 1.71
(2-70) (0-16) (0-37) (0-5) (0-5)
Early Talkers M:94.27/SD:24.46 M: 19.8/SD: 4.78 M: 48.33/SD: 12.66) M: 5.2/SD: 1.01 M: 4.93/ SD:.88
(29-117) (8-25) (19-62) (3-7) (3-6)

Noun proportion

SolSh SolMat SolB NsolMat NsolB

MCDI 0.54 0.11 0.28 0.04 0.03
Late Talkers M: .61/SD: .16 M: .09/SD: .08 M: .23/SD: .08 M: .04/SD: .05 M: .04/ SD: .03
(.3-1) (0-.3) (0-.36) (0-.2) (0-.1)
Early Talkers M: .54/ SD: .03 M: .12/SD: .01 M: .28/SD: .02 M: .03/SD: .01 M: .03/SD: .01
(.47-.59) (.11-.13) (.23-.31) (.02-.05) (.02-.05)

Subcategory Proportion

SolSh SolMat SolB NsolMat NsolB

Late Talkers M: .22/SD: .2 M: .21/SD: .21 M: .2/ SD: .19 M: .23/SD: .24 M: .32/SD: .29
(.02-.58) (0-.64) (0-.59) (0-.63) (0-.83)
Early Talkers M: .79/SD: .2 M: .79/SD: .19 M: .77/SD: .2 M: .65/SD: .13 M: .82/SD: .15
(.24-.98) (.32-1) (.30-.98) (.38-.88) (.5-1)