The Categorial Status of Body Part Prepositions in Valley Zapotec ...

Language Evaluation (CYCLE) (Curtiss and Yamada 1987). 14 Many pictures were
slightly modified by cropping or cutting and pasting to make additional pictures. During
the first testing session, I videotaped the children as they did the task. I did not videotape
them during the second session, however, because I found it too hard to both videotape
and participate in the task.
4.2.1 Pre-test
A pre-test was conducted before the body part test. The pre-test served two
functions. It introduced the child to the forced choice task. During this section, if the
child was unresponsive after being asked the question, Lopez modeled how to choose a
picture by pointing at the correct picture, and was rewarded with a sticker. This
established the task of choosing and the preferential method of choosing: pointing.
Furthermore, the pre-test was used to introduce some of the pictures that would be used
later in the body part locative test. The pictures used in the pre-test were a dog, a chair, a
table, and a car, all of which were used in the actual test. The child's success in the pre-
test showed that she could recognize the pictures and understood the task. As in the test
itself, all answers given by the child were rewarded with verbal praise and a sticker,
regardless of whether the answer was correct or not.
The three pre-test pairs are listed below in Table 13. The correct answers are in
bold. The words are presented as the pictures were presented, with the word on the left
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The picture for làa'iny 'stomach' was drawn for me by Melissa Tai and was drawn in
the style of the CYCLE pictures.
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