TABLE 5.

Correlations of child and maternal noun usage of particular word types, as well as the results of the hierarchical multiple regression of child usage with another mother’s usage and his/her own mother’s usage

	Own Mother Correlation	Other Mother Correlation	Other Mother R2	Own Mother + Other Mother R2	F (change in R2)
Alex	.91**	.67**	.63	.83	19.77**
Ethan	.92**	.73**	.64	.83	32.00**
Lily	.95**	.87**	.90	.96	87.94**
Nina	.91**	.76**	.62	.83	36.09**
Violet	.96**	.93**	.83	.91	14.86*
William	.73**	.71**	.57	.59	1.19 (n.s.)

^*indicates significance at a level of p<.005 and

^**indicates significance at a level of p<.001.