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

Table 7

Mean percentage of subject 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 subject	24	32.12		21	35.62
(i) Transitive	20	30.03	22.53	19	33.21	19.35
(ii) Intransitive	23	45.37	25.53	20	43.65	24.07
(iii) Unaccusative	21	41.69	24.68	20	43.10	23.39
(iv) Unergative	9	34.02	39.94	11	40.46	33.32
(v) Mixed	10	20.63	25.56	15	31.33	30.48