Grammatical morphology as a source of early number word meanings

被引:66
|
作者
Almoammer, Alhanouf [1 ,2 ]
Sullivan, Jessica [3 ]
Donlan, Chris [1 ]
Marusic, Franc [5 ]
Zaucer, Rok [5 ]
O'Donnell, Timothy [6 ]
Barner, David [3 ,4 ]
机构
[1] UCL, Div Psychol & Language Sci, London WC1N 1PF, England
[2] King Saud Univ, Dept Hlth Rehabil Sci, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
[3] Univ Calif San Diego, Dept Psychol, La Jolla, CA 92116 USA
[4] Univ Calif San Diego, Dept Linguist, La Jolla, CA 92116 USA
[5] Univ Nova Gorica, Res Ctr Humanities Language & Cognit Sci, SI-5000 Nova Gorica, Slovenia
[6] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
counting; grammatical number; LANGUAGE; ACQUISITION; COGNITION;
D O I
10.1073/pnas.1313652110
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
How does cross-linguistic variation in linguistic structure affect children's acquisition of early number word meanings? We tested this question by investigating number word learning in two unrelated languages that feature a tripartite singular-dual-plural distinction: Slovenian and Saudi Arabic. We found that learning dual morphology affects children's acquisition of the number word two in both languages, relative to English. Children who knew the meaning of two were surprisingly frequent in the dual languages, relative to English. Furthermore, Slovenian children were faster to learn two than children learning English, despite being less-competent counters. Finally, in both Slovenian and Saudi Arabic, comprehension of the dual was correlated with knowledge of two and higher number words.
引用
收藏
页码:18448 / 18453
页数:6
相关论文
共 50 条
  • [31] THE GRAMMATICAL NUMBER OF CYTOPLASM
    ANSTEY, L
    [J]. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DERMATOPATHOLOGY, 1985, 7 (06) : 594 - 594
  • [32] THE CONCEPT OF THE FORMAL GRAMMATICAL WORD
    LEONTEV, AA
    [J]. LINGUISTICS, 1965, (JUN) : 33 - 39
  • [33] Grammatical sensitivity: Its origins and potential contribution to early word reading skill
    Bowey, JA
    [J]. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY, 2005, 90 (04) : 318 - 343
  • [34] Numerical morphology supports early number word learning: Evidence from a comparison of young Mandarin and English learners
    Le Corre, Mathieu
    Li, Peggy
    Huang, Becky H.
    Jia, Gisela
    Carey, Susan
    [J]. COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY, 2016, 88 : 162 - 186
  • [35] WORD IN THE TEXT AND SUBTEXT MEANINGS
    Maslennikova, Evgeniya M.
    [J]. WUT 2018 - IX INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WORD, UTTERANCE, TEXT: COGNITIVE, PRAGMATIC AND CULTURAL ASPECTS, 2018, 39 : 102 - 108
  • [36] Do Word Meanings Exist?
    Patrick Hanks
    [J]. Computers and the Humanities, 2000, 34 : 205 - 215
  • [37] CASUAL LEARNING OF WORD MEANINGS
    Haefner, Ralph
    [J]. JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH, 1932, 25 (4-5): : 267 - 277
  • [38] THE ETYMOLOGY AND MEANINGS OF THE WORD JERGA
    CAROBAROJA, J
    [J]. REVISTA DE DIALECTOLOGIA Y TRADICIONES POPULARES, 1991, 46 : 7 - 21
  • [39] Document retrieval by word meanings
    Oh'uci-H, H
    Miura, T
    Shioya, I
    [J]. 2003 IEEE PACIFIC RIM CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATIONS, COMPUTERS, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOLS 1 AND 2, CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, 2003, : 804 - 807
  • [40] Effects and meanings of the word of repressors
    Laura Sucari, Ana
    [J]. SOCIOHISTORICA-CUADERNOS DEL CISH, 2021, (47):