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

TABLE OF TABLES
Table 1. Consonant Inventory of Valley Zapotec Languages in Orthography 4
Table 2. Vowel Inventory of Valley Zapotec Languages in Orthography 5
Table 3. Body Part Terms and Meanings 7
Table 4. Possessed Body Parts in Valley Zapotec Languages 11
Table 5. Body Part Terms Used in Locative Constructions 12
Table 6. Spanish Prepositions in SLQZ 13
Table 7. Native Non-Body Part Prepositions in SLQZ 13
Table 8. PP and NP Analysis of ni’ih me’es 16
Table 9. Body Part Terms and their Range of Meanings 29
Table 10. Colonial Valley Zapotec Documents 33
Table 11. Number of Body Part Terms in Colonial Valley Zapotec
Documents
35
Table 12. Body Part Terms Tested 46
Table 13. Pre-test 49
Table 14. Body Part Test 51
Table 15. Body Part Preposition Test 55
Table 16. Results for Lorena 6;4 57
Table 17. Results for Andrea 2;3 58
Table 18. Results for Vanesa 1;6 59
Table 19. Comparison of Acquisition of Prepositions 60
Table 20. SLQZ Acquisition of Body Part Terms 61
Table 21. Production of Body Part Locatives in SMTZ 62
Table 22. Body Parts and Locatives used by SMTZ acquiring child 2;9 63
Table 23. Cross-Linguistics Order of Acquisition for Prepositions 64
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