Table 1: Distribution of early- and late-appearing words in the EP-CDI SFs*.
Emergence EP-CDI SFI EP-CDI SFII
Early-appearing 6% (5/90) 10% (9/99)
Late-appearing 10% (9/90) 7% (6/99)
*SFI: early-appearing (understood < 0;9 by 50% or more of the infants, and/or produced by 1;3), late-appearing (understood and produced by < 40% of the infants between 1;4 – 1;6, and/or produced after 1;6 in PLEX5); SFII: early-appearing (produced by ≤80%, and/or emerged ≥1;8 in PLEX5), late-appearing (produced by ≥20%, and/or emerged after 2;1 in PLEX5)
Table 2: Percentage of High, Medium and Low frequency words in the child directed speech data included in the EP-CDI SFs (source CDS-EP database, Frota et al., 2013).
Frequency EP-CDI SFI EP-CDI SFII
High 7% (8/90) 8% (8/99)
Medium 72% (65/90) 67% (66/99)
Low 20% (18/90) 25% (25/99)