Table 4: Distribution of items across categories: EP-CDI SFs compared to the American English short forms.

	CDI - Level I
	European Portuguese	English
Total vocabulary	90	89
Items by category
1. Sound effects & animal sounds	4	4
2. Animal names	6	6
3. Vehicles	2	2
4. Toys	3	3
5. Food and drink	6	6
6. Clothing	4	4
7. Body parts	5	5
8. Small household items	7	7
9. Furniture and rooms	5	5
10. Outside things & places to go	8	8
11. People	4	4
12. Games and routines	6	6
13. Action words	11	11
14. Descriptive words	8	8
15. Words about time	2	2
16. Pronouns	3	2
17. Question words	2	2
18. Prepositions & locations	2	2
19. Quantifiers and articles	2	2
Morphosyntactic Category Distribution
Nouns	61	62
Verbs	13	15
Adjectives & Adverbs	13	12
Pronouns, Sound Effects & other parts of speech	12	11

	CDI - Level II
	European Portuguese	English (A)	English (B)
Total vocabulary	99	100	100
Items by category
1. Sound effects & animal sounds	5	5	5
2. Animal names	6	6	6
3. Vehicles	3	3	2
4. Toys	3	3	3
5. Food and drink	8	8	8
6. Clothing	4	4	4
7. Body parts	4	4	3
8. Small household items	7	7	9
9. Furniture and rooms	5	5	5
10. Outside things	5	6	4
11. Places to go	2	1	3
12. People	3	3	4
13. Games and routines	5	5	5
14. Action words	14	15	14
15. Descriptive words	9	8	8
16. Words about time	3	3	3
17. Pronouns	4	4	4
18. Question words	1	1	1
19. Prepositions & locations	3	3	3
20. Quantifiers and articles	2	2	2
21. Helping Verbs	1	3	3
22. Connecting words	1	1	1
23. Complex words	1	0	0
Morphosyntactic Category Distribution
Nouns	55	52	53
Verbs	16	18	17
Adjectives & Adverbs	16	15	17
Pronouns, Sound Effects & other parts of speech	13	15	13