ABSTRACT
This chapter provides both mean age and standard deviation as well as the age-in-months median for each group for a more accurate comparison and interpretation of the results. Pronouns and their zero equivalents were also coded with respect to whether they occurred in finite or non-finite clauses, but the distinction is neglected in the analysis because the children almost exclusively produced finite structures. Results for the realization of demonstrative pronouns as subjects are again quite different, and zero pronouns are even lower than for the referentials across groups. The grammatical criteria that have been identified as playing a role are “type of subject pronoun” and “clause type.” The stratification of the results according to mean length of utterance (MLU) group/age has revealed that Hypotheses 1a and 1b are completely validated. MLU group has been returned as a strong predictor for the realization of subject pronouns by all statistical analyses.
