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

Table 11

Mean percentage of different ways used by Group 1 and Group 2 to express direct object.

	Group 1			Group 2
	Number of children	Mean	s.d.	Number of children	Mean	s.d.	df	𝑈	P
Clitic	21	28	21.49	23	34	14.65	42	237.5	.741
Noun	24	49	19.30	21	51	13.49	43	193.5	.182
Pronoun	20	23	16.88	18	16	11.29	36	189.5	.155