Table 4.
Regular past tense marking during elicitation probe: Higher probability versus lower probability verbs.
| Group | Higher probability
|
Lower probability
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | Nonstandard | Zero marked | Other | % Markeda | Standard | Nonstandard | Zero marked | Other | % Marked | |
| LSES | 5.93b (1.34) | 0 (−) | 0.80 (1.37) | 0.27 (0.59) | 89% (19.62) | 5.60 (1.06) | 0 (−) | 1.27 (0.96) | 0.07 (0.26) | 82% (13.70) |
| 89 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 84 | 0 | 19 | 4 | |||
| AM | 6.73 (0.59) | 0 (−) | 0.20 (0.56) | 0.07 (0.26) | 97% (8.01) | 6.07 (1.79) | 0 (−) | 0.60 (0.91) | 0.07 (0.26) | 88% (25.82) |
| 101 | 0 | 3 | 25 | 91 | 0 | 9 | 1 | |||
| LM | 6.27 (1.67) | 0 (−) | 0.67 (1.45) | 0 (−) | 90% (23.29) | 10.33 (4.15) | 0 (−) | 1.40 (1.50) | 0 (−) | 79% (22.74) |
| 94 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 83 | 0 | 21 | 0 | |||
a
% Marked = calculated from (standard marked + nonstandard marked)/Total number of obligatory contexts (standard marked + nonstandard marked + zero marked).
b
The first row reflects the group average, the second reflects the standard deviation, and the third row, when given, reflects the sum of the responses.