Lexical, Morphological, and Syntactic Characteristics of Verbs in the Spontaneous Production of Italian Children

Table 13

Mean percentage of different words used by Group 1 and Group 2 to express indirect object.

	Group 1			Group 2
	Number of children	Mean	s.d.	Number of children	Mean	s.d.	df	𝑈	P
Adjective	4	2	3.93	5	2	3.80	7	239	.672
Adverbs	24	71	15.32	21	66	18.57	43	213	.375
Noun	17	15	13.50	19	18	11.51	34	208	.315
Pronoun	16	13	11.76	18	14	11.89	32	232	.647