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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 9.
Published in final edited form as: J Mem Lang. 2007 Apr;56(3):410–435. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2006.08.007

Table 5.

Proportions of each type of construction for Study 3 corpora analyses

Construction External cause change of state
Internal cause change of state
Internal cause manner of motion
M SE M SE M SE
Passive 0.090 0.014 0.081 0.023 0.006 0.003
Transitive 0.205 0.018 0.188 0.024 0.115 0.019
MTS Criteria
Reduced relative 0.0051 0.0020 0.0144 0.0059 0.0001 0.0001
Expanded Criteria
Reduced relative 0.0075 0.0024 0.0241 0.0083 0.0003 0.0001