Table 5.
Within-group Pearson product–moment correlation coefficients.
| Phonological |
Lexical |
Morphosyntactic |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Conj | |
| 1. Pig Latin | 1 |
.828
.524 |
.633
.681 |
.563
.517 |
.534
.675 |
.501
.457 |
.200 .688 |
.103 .173 |
.334 .639 |
.131 .359 |
.298 .204 |
.324 .214 |
| 2. Backward words | 1 |
.634
.587 |
.579
.536 |
.527
.536 |
.458 .383 |
.257 .596 |
.174 .306 |
.413 .465 |
.218 .386 |
.313 .335 |
.382 .348 |
|
| 3. Final consonant choice | 1 |
.618
.520 |
.486
.635 |
.504
.462 |
.336 .509 |
.139 .199 |
.403 .605 |
−.155 .514 |
.104 .294 |
.322 .411 |
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| 4. Word reading | 1 |
.604
.842 |
.575
.589 |
.524
.865 |
.155 .181 |
.612
.685 |
.018 .306 |
.287 .264 |
.580
.266 |
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| 5. Grammaticality judge | 1 |
.560
.677 |
.533
.839 |
.225 .274 |
.642
.829 |
−.025 .397 |
.333 .402 |
.441 .371 |
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| 6. Verbal working memory | 1 | .354 .560 |
.026 .152 |
.582
.592 |
−.155 .170 |
.006 .333 |
.034 .336 |
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| 7. Expressive vocabulary | 1 |
.679
.292 |
.485
.710 |
.015 .350 |
.465
.355 |
.189 .309 |
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| 8. Bound morphemes | 1 | .253 .447 |
.287 .551 |
.754
.737 |
.246 .285 |
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| 9. Sentence comprehension | 1 | .078 .539 |
.346 .459 |
.558 .152 |
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| 10. Pronouns | 1 |
.624
.669 |
.193 .432 |
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| 11. Mean length utterance | 1 |
.503
.481 |
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Note. Bolded coefficients represent p < .01. Top row = children with normal hearing; bottom row = children with cochlear implants. Conj = conjunctions.