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

Table 10

Mean percentage of direct object produced with transitive and mixed verbs by Group 1 and Group 2 (percentages were calculated out of specific verbs).

	Group 1			Group 2
	Number of children	Mean	s.d.	Number of children	Mean	s.d.
Expression of direct object*	24	45.59		21	61.76
(i) Transitive	24	50.22	15.99	21	68.17	17.41
(ii) Mixed	13	27.83	31.91	16	34.92	27.45

^∗Overt pronoun was counted as expression of direct object.