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Grammatical morphology as a source of early number word meanings
Alhanouf Almoammer, Jessica L. Sullivan, Chris Donlan, Franc Marušič, Rok Žaucer, Timothy J. O’Donnell, David Barner · 2013 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Children
- About 230 children
- Where
- Slovenia, the United States and Saudi Arabia
- Ages
- 2 to 4½ years
- How
- Researchers asked children to give a puppet a number of toys
- What it found
- Children whose language has a special word form for "two" learned "two" earlier, but learning "three" didn't differ between languages.
- Limits
- The shares at each step are mostly in figures we haven't read.