Table II.
Average Proportions of the Different Sentence Types in Experiment 2
| Age | Old | Young | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sentence type | DO | PD | Other | Prop DO | DO | PD | Other | Prop DO | |
| Experiment 2 | |||||||||
| Verb | |||||||||
| Alternator | |||||||||
| Cue | PD | 0.01 | 0.87 | 0.12 | .01 | 0.02 | 0.86 | 0.11 | .03 |
| DO | 0.58 | 0.34 | 0.09 | .64 | 0.56 | 0.32 | 0.12 | .64 | |
| Nonalternator | |||||||||
| PD | 0.17 | 0.59 | 0.24 | .24 | 0.11 | 0.66 | 0.23 | .15 | |
| DO | 0.11 | 0.82 | 0.06 | .12 | 0.11 | 0.86 | 0.03 | .12 | |
Note: Prep. Const., prepositional constraint; PD, prepositional dative; DO, double object; Prop DO, proportion of DO/(sum of the proportions of DO and PD). For the variable Cue, DO corresponds to a condition in which the noun that was cued could have corresponded to the indirect object (first-mentioned noun) of the double object construction, and likewise for PD could have served as the direct object for the prepositional dative.