Lexical, Morphological, and Syntactic Characteristics of Verbs in the Spontaneous Production of Italian Children
Table 3
General characteristics of Group 1 and Group 2 verbal productions.
Group 1
Group 2
Number of children
Mean
s.d.
Number of children
Mean
s.d.
df
P
Number of linguistic utterances (single-word + multiword utterances)
24
198
83.71
21
211
59.15
43
204
.275
% of utterances with verb*
24
32
8.79
21
46
9.70
43
75
.001
% of simple utterances*
24
97.56
3.44
21
90.29
7.04
43
79.5
.001
% of complex utterances*
13
2.44
3.44
20
9.71
7.04
31
79.5
.001
Number of multiword utterances
24
60
40.96
21
96
35.14
43
76
.001
% of verbs in multiword utterancesĀ°
24
73.79
7.85
21
84.93
7.59
43
70
.001
percentage was calculated on the total linguistic utterances produced by children. Ā°The percentage was calculated on total of verbs produced by children.
