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Direct linkSarnecka, Barbara W.; Gelman, Susan A. – Cognition, 2004
This paper examines what children believe about unmapped number words--those number words whose exact meanings children have not yet learned. In Study one, 31 children (ages 2-10 to 4-2) judged that the application of "five" and "six" changes when numerosity changes, although they did not know that equal sets must have the same number word. In…
Descriptors: Numbers, Number Concepts, Preschool Children, Language Acquisition
