Research Article
Lexical, Morphological, and Syntactic Characteristics of Verbs in the Spontaneous Production of Italian Children
Table 5
Mean percentage of transitive, intransitive, and mixed verbs produced by Group 1 and Group 2.
| | Group 1 | Group 2 | | | | | Number of children | Mean | s.d. | Number of children | Mean | s.d. | df | | P |
| | Stems | | | | | | | | | | | Transitive | 24 | 58.03 | 10.40 | 21 | 57.90 | 7.29 | 43 | 249 | .946 | | Intransitive | 24 | 28.39 | 11.18 | 21 | 28.50 | 9.77 | 43 | 231 | .632 | | Mixed | 21 | 13.56 | 7.82 | 21 | 13.59 | 5.98 | 40 | 245 | .873 | | Tokens | | | | | | | | | | | Transitive | 24 | 64.40 | 12.97 | 21 | 62.20 | 11.14 | 43 | 215 | .400 | | Intransitive | 24 | 23.41 | 14.19 | 21 | 25.40 | 8.55 | 43 | 193 | .179 | | Mixed | 21 | 12.18 | 8.24 | 21 | 12.39 | 7.26 | 40 | 243.5 | .847 |
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