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Published in final edited form as: J Appl Dev Psychol. 2019 Nov 4;65:101070. doi: 10.1016/j.appdev.2019.101070

Table 2.

Distribution of Language and Tantrum Measures in the Full Sample and Language Subgroups

	Full sample (n =1,973)	Toddlers age 24–30 months
	Full sample (n =1,973)	Late talkers (n = 41)	Not late talkers (n = 394)
Expressive vocabulary size
No words	67	0	0
1–2 words	126	3	6
3–10 words	436	13	34
11–50 words	566	25	131
Between 51 & 200 words	439	0	119
Between 200 & 500 words	223	0	74
More than 500 words	116	0	30
Word combinations
Yes	1476	0	379
No	497	41	15
Temper tantrum score (mean ± SD)	.04 ± 1.0	.51 ± .90	.02 ± .94

Note. Late talkers were defined as 24–30-months-olds with fewer than 50 words and no two-word utterances.