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

Table 8

Mean percentage of pre- and postverbal production of subject with transitive, unaccusative, and unergative verbs by Group 1 and Group 2.

	Group 1			Group 2
	Number of children	Mean	s.d.	Number of children	Mean	s.d.
Transitive
(i) Preverbal	21	59.73	36.21	19	63.23	27.52
(ii) Postverbal	21	40.27	36.21	19	36.77	27.52
Unaccusative
(i) Preverbal	21	57.76	43.73	20	55.10	33.50
(ii) Postverbal	21	42.24	43.73	20	44.90	33.50
Unergative
(i) Preverbal	9	38.89	48.59	9	68.11	43.76
(ii) Postverbal	9	61.11	48.59	9	31.89	43.76