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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Child Lang. 2019 Jan 11;46(3):409–432. doi: 10.1017/S0305000918000508

Table 4:

The average age of acquisition of each verb, based on Wordbank data (Frank et al., 2016). Note that while very young children may exhibit a slight result bias, at 24 months there is a spurt in the acquisition of manner verbs. Late talkers, who do not have as many verbs, may demonstrate a lack of a manner bias due to their small vocabularies.

Age (months) Verbs Number of Manner verbs (cumulative) Number of result verbs (cumulative)
19 Manner: [none]
Result: Eat, Go
0 2
20 [none] 0 2
21 Manner:, Kiss
Result: Drink
1 3
22 Manner: Dance, Hug, Jump, Nap, Read, Run, Swing, Walk
Result: Help, Open, See, Sit, Sleep, Stop
9 9
23 Manner: Clap, Ride, Tickle, Wash
Result: Get
Stative: Love
13 10
24 Manner: Hit, Kick, Look, Push, Sing, Slide, Throw
Result: Close
20 11
25 Manner: Knock
Result: Catch, Fix, Snow
Stative: Want
21 14
26 Manner: [none]
Result: Bring, Cut, Feed, Give, Make
Stative: Have
21 19
27 Manner: [none]
Result: Take
21 20
28 Manner: [none]
Result: Finish
21 21
29 Manner: Show
Result: [none]
22 21