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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Lang Learn Dev. 2015 Feb 4;12(1):42–59. doi: 10.1080/15475441.2014.989051

Table 3.

Mean Number of Path and Manner Verb Tokens Produced Per Person by the L2 Learners and Native Spanish Speakers

N Number of path verb tokens (SD) Number of manner verb tokens (SD) Proportion of path verbs (SD) MLU (SD)
Intermediate L2 learners 26 2.62 (1.17) 1.19 (0.75) .69 (.16) 11.10 (2.00)
Advanced L2 learners 24 4.46 (2.00) 1.08 (1.02) .81 (.17) 12.34 (2.63)
3-year-old Spanish speakers 11 4.18 (1.66) 0.64 (0.51) .84 (.16) 6.09 (0.71)
12-year-old Spanish speakers 10 4.90 (1.45) 0.40 (0.52) .94 (.08) 11.51 (2.48)