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

Table 17

Mean percentage of verbs used by Group 1 and Group 2 with one or more morphological inflection.

	Group 1			Group 2
	Number of children	Mean	s.d.	Number of children	Mean	s.d.	df	𝑈	P
(1) Inflection	24	75.79	9.06	21	73.51	12.82	43	250	.964
(2) Inflections	23	15.92	6.77	19	12.34	7.12	40	149	.079
(3) Inflections	16	5.21	4.44	19	6.39	3.36	33	206	.715
(4) Or more inflections	10	3.08	3.97	14	7.77	7.33	22	117.5	.002