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

Table 9

Mean percentage of different words used to express subject and person/number of expressed subject by Group 1 and Group 2.

	Group 1			Group 2
	Number of children	Mean	s.d.	Number of children	Mean	s.d.	df	𝑈	P
Noun	23	44	26.55	18	38	25.19	39	227	.566
Pronoun	18	25	16.77	15	29	26.80	31	225	.532
Personal pronoun	19	31	21.06	17	32	19.89	34	232	.647
1st singular	18	75	33.90	15	64	33.99	31	130.5	.208
2nd singular	9	25	33.90	10	23	28.49	17	161	.770
3rd singular	0	0	0	4	12	27.04	3	130	.024
3rd plural	0	0	0	1	1	2.20	0	160	.278