Evidence for knowledge of the syntax of large numbers in preschoolers
| Autor: | Michel Fayol, Catherine Thevenot, Pierre Barrouillet |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Communication Recall business.industry Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Verbal Learning computer.software_genre Syntax Semantics Task (project management) Cognition ddc:150 Child Preschool Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans Female Artificial intelligence business Psychology computer Mathematics Natural language processing |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 105, No 3 (2010) pp. 264-271 |
| ISSN: | 0022-0965 |
| Popis: | The aim of this study was to provide evidence for knowledge of the syntax governing the verbal form of large numbers in preschoolers long before they are able to count up to these numbers. We reasoned that if such knowledge exists, it should facilitate the maintenance in short-term memory of lists of lexical primitives that constitute a number (e.g., three hundred forty five) compared with lists containing the same primitives but in a scrambled order (e.g., five three forty hundred). The two types of lists were given to 5-year-olds in an immediate serial recall task. As we predicted, the lists in syntactic order were easier to recall, suggesting that they match some knowledge of the way lexical primitives must be ordered to express large numerosities. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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