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

Table 1

Characteristics of Group 1 and Group 2.

	Group 1	Group 2
MLUw-mean (range)	1.79 (1.50–1.97)	2.37 (2.03–2.98)
Age	2; 03.04 (1; 11.24–3; 00.14)	2; 05.17 (1; 11.27–3; 00.16)
Gender
Females	10	11
Males	14	10
Mother’s education*
18 years of education	10	9
13 years of education	9	9
8 years of education	5	3

^∗18 years of education correspond to graduate school, 13 years of education correspond to high school, and 8 years of education correspond to elementary and junior school.