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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Dec 15.
Published in final edited form as: Infant Behav Dev. 2021 Jan 20;62:101528. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2021.101528

Table 1.

Total number of utterances, total number of canonical utterances, percentage of canonical utterances, total number of syllables, total number of canonical syllables, and the canonical babbling ratio (CBR, canonical syllables as a percentage of all syllables) in the two language groups.

Measures Korean-learning children English-learning children Statistical Values
M (SD) M (SD) F p ηP2
Total # of utterances 648.93 (229.18) 693.79 (266.69) .228 .637 .009
Total # of canonical utterances 341.79 (250.55) 342.93 (235.48) .000 .990 .000
% of canonical utterances 48.91 (20.16) 46.23 (16.35) .708 .703 .006
Total # of syllables 1219.71 (562.66) 1365.36 (663.87) .392 .537 .015
Total # of canonical syllables 589.07 (518.42) 627.71 (540.39) .037 .848 .001
CBR 41.95 (18.86) 41.15 (14.71) .016 .901 .001