THE ORIGIN OF NUMERICAL CONCEPTS: EARLY MEANINGS OF ‘ONE’, ‘TWO’, AND ‘THREE’ AMONG BASQUEAND SPANISH-SPEAKING CHILDREN
Journal Title: Problems of Education in the 21st Century - Year 2009, Vol 10, Issue 1
Abstract
This study examines the conceptual origins of the meaning of the first number-words and what role language can play in developing the notion of number. The original hypothesis is related to the idea that the meaning of the number-words “one”, “two” and “three” is supported by the conceptual framework of grammatical numbers, rather than that of integers (Sarnecka, Kamenskaya, Yamana, Ogura & Yudovina, 2006). To that end the counting abilities of Spanish and Basque monolingual children and Spanish-Basque bilingual children are tested, because the Spanish and Basque languages express grammatical number in different ways (Perea, Urkia, Davis, Agirre & Carreiras, 2006). On the one hand, the findings are in line with the initial hypothesis and with Sarnecka’s work (Sarnecka et al., 2006), and on the other hand with a growing body of evidence that shows that the meaning of the count list appears from mapping numerals onto numerical cognitive representations produced by early core systems of number (Le Corre & Carey, 2007; 2008).
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José Domingo Villarroel Villamor, Teresa Nuño Angós, Alfredo Goñi Grandmontagne
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