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

Table 15

Mean percentage of verbal inflections produced 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
Mode
Indicative	24	65.49	12.49	21	76.48	8.30	43	111.5	.001
Imperative	24	21.14	12.41	21	14.56	7.97	43	172	.049
Infinite	17	5.88	7.32	14	3.00	4.08	29	202.5	.251
Participle	16	6.36	6.19	17	3.82	4.88	31	203	.260
Conditional	16	0	0	17	.26	.94	31	228	.126
Gerund	8	1.13	2.29	9	1.88	2.75	15	217	.361
Time
Present	24	88.37	7.67	21	87.51	5.96	43	224	.524
Past	24	11.63	7.67	21	12.49	5.96	43	224	.524
Person
1st singular	24	29.27	17.22	21	24.13	10.55	43	222.5	.502
2nd singular	24	27.14	15.01	21	24.26	11.54	43	227.5	.577
3rd singular	24	36.55	17.04	21	41.19	11.80	43	197	.211
1st plural	16	4.85	5.24	13	5.65	6.54	27	245	.871
3rd plural	10	2.20	4.23	17	4.76	4.11	25	138	.007