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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cogn Psychol. 2012 Apr 2;65(1):118–140. doi: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2012.02.002

Table 8.

Proportion (number) of different semantic relations in each sample

Category Mei (6;7) Mei (6;8) Cal (6;10) Cal (6;11) Jil (2;0) Jil (2;2) Sal (2;0) Sal (2;2)
Existence .03 (2) .03 (1) .06 (3) .09 (3) .09 (3) .30 (21) .16 (10) .18 (7)
Action .11 (7) .03 (1) .06 (3) .06 (2) .56 (18) .17 (12) .39 (24) .28 (11)
State .20 (13) .11 (4) .13 (7) .15 (5) .19 (6) .07 (5) .02 (1) .08 (3)
Locative state .06 (4) .14 (5) .11 (6) .09 (3) … (0) .06 (4) .05 (3) .10 (4)
Locative action .09 (6) .05 (2) .02 (1) .06 (2) .03 (1) .06 (4) .03 (2) .18 (7)
Possession .06 (4) .11 (4) .02 (1) .03 (1) … (0) .10 (7) … (0) .05 (2)
Attribution .25 (16) .32 (12) .35 (19) .32 (11) .03 (1) .13 (9) .15 (9) .08 (3)
Negation .05 (3) … (0) .02 (1) … (0) .06 (2) … (0) .02 (1) … (0)
Wh-Quest. … (0) .03 (1) .02 (1) .06 (2) .03 (1) .11 (8) .09 (6) .05 (2)
Notice .02 (1) .14 (5) .04 (2) .03 (1) … (0) … (0) .07 (4) … (0)
Instrument … (0) … (0) .02 (1) … (0) … (0) … (0) .02 (1) … (0)
Intention .12 (8) .05 (2) .06 (3) .09 (3) … (0) … (0) … (0) .03 (1)
Recurrence .02 (1) … (0) .11 (6) .03 (1) … (0) … (0) … (0) … (0)
Total N 65 37 54 34 32 70 61 40