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1-030 - Linguistic basis of numerical cognition
Thu, March 21, 9:30 to 11:00am, Baltimore Convention Center, Floor: Level 3, Room 343Session Type: Paper Symposium
Integrative Statement
The natural numbers are endless. This has made children’s acquisition of their meaning a puzzle to researchers and educators for a long time. While the natural number system seems simple, it takes several years of explicit and intentional training for a developing child to grasp all the meanings it can express. This symposium presents a set of four papers that addresses this puzzle, all with the common theoretical proposition that linguistic structure and operations are key to grasping the meanings of indefinitely (and potentially, infinitely) many natural numbers. At a detailed level, these papers will provide answers to more specific questions regarding (1) the relationship between the transparency of the base system and children’s counting knowledge, (2) children’s use of the base-10 syntactic rule to represent cardinality, (3) children’s understanding of multiplicative syntactic binding to represent a number, and (4) the relationship between children’s knowledge of the syntactic structure and their understanding of infinity. The findings, to be elaborated in each presentation, collectively suggest the importance of “numerical syntax” in comprehending the natural number system and lead to exciting new directions to studying this most basic yet crucial element of human knowledge base.
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A cross-linguistic investigation into children’s acquisition of the successor function - Presenting Author: Rose Schneider, University of California San Diego; Non-Presenting Author: Jess Sullivan, Skidmore College; Non-Presenting Author: Kaiqi Guo, University of California San Diego; Non-Presenting Author: Priyanka Biswas, University of California San Diego; Non-Presenting Author: David Barner, University of California, San Diego
Syntactic embedding of cardinal numbers - Presenting Author: Diego Guerrero, University of Massachusetts; Non-Presenting Author: Brynn Boutin, University of Massachusetts; Non-Presenting Author: Tom Roeper, University of Massachusetts; Non-Presenting Author: Joonkoo Park, University of Massachusetts
En route to a gazillion meanings: The acquisition of the syntax and meaning of complex multiplicative numerals in children - Presenting Author: Mathieu Le Corre, Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Cognitivas, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos; Non-Presenting Author: Meghan Dale, Queen's University; Non-Presenting Author: Pierina Cheung, Nanyang Technological University, National Institute of Education
How does counting relate to children’s understanding of infinity? - Presenting Author: Junyi Chu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Non-Presenting Author: Rose Schneider, University of California San Diego; Non-Presenting Author: Pierina Cheung, Nanyang Technological University, National Institute of Education; Non-Presenting Author: Jess Sullivan, Skidmore College; Non-Presenting Author: David Barner, University of California, San Diego