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

Table 18

Mean percentage of verbs used by Group 1 and Group 2 in one or more construction.

	Group 1			Group 2
	Number of children	Mean	s.d.	Number of children	Mean	s.d.	df	𝑈	P
(1) Construction	23	67.48	26.25	20	57.07	23.86	41	197.5	.213
(2) Constructions	17	30.54	26.97	20	37.69	20.43	35	208	.314
(3) Or more constructions	2	1.98	7.29	6	5.24	10.40	6	203	.094