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

Table 12

Mean percentage of indirect object produced with transitive, intransitive, 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 indirect object	24	24.26		21	35.18
(i) Transitive	23	21.90	12.31	21	31.64	10.11
(ii) Intransitive	23	36.76	16.24	21	49.12	20.93
(iii) Mixed	10	13.78	17.43	15	24.86	23.39