. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 5.

Published in final edited form as: J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2002 Jun;45(3):505–518. doi: 10.1044/1092-4388(2002/040)

Table 3.

Percent of children in each group who produced each pattern.^a

W (n = 53)	AA (n = 40)
zero be (89%)*	zero be (100%)*
multiple negation (72%)*	zero regular third (100%)*
zero regular third (70%)*	zero regular past (90%)
omission of do (66%)*	S-V agreement with be (85%)*
S-V agreement with don’t (60%)*	multiple negation (82%)*
S-V agreement with be (58%)*	S-V agreement with don’t (78%)*
appositives (57%)	zero irregular past (75%)*
over-regularization of regular past (55%)	omission of do (70%)*
zero irregular past (51%)*	zero irregular third person (70%)
alternative pronoun form (51%)	zero possessive (68%)

The 10 most frequently used pattern types for each group are listed in descending order. Patterns that appear on both lists are indicated by *.