Number-Concept Acquisition and General Vocabulary Development

• Autores: James Negen, Barbara W. Sarnecka
• Localización: Child development, ISSN 0009-3920, Vol. 83, Nº. 6, 2012, págs. 2019-2027
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • How is number-concept acquisition related to overall language development? Experiments 1 and 2 measured number-word knowledge and general vocabulary in a total of 59 children, ages 30–60 months. A strong correlation was found between number-word knowledge and vocabulary, independent of the child’s age, contrary to previous results (D. Ansari et al., 2003). This result calls into question arguments that (a) the number-concept creation process is scaffolded mainly by visuo-spatial development and (b) that language only becomes integrated after the concepts are created (D. Ansari et al., 2003). Instead, this may suggest that having a larger nominal vocabulary helps children learn number words. Experiment 3 shows that the differences with previous results are likely due to changes in how the data were analyzed.