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A Sense Of Proportion: Commentary On Opfer, Siegler, And Young, H Barth, Emily Slusser, D Cohen, A Paladino
A Sense Of Proportion: Commentary On Opfer, Siegler, And Young, H Barth, Emily Slusser, D Cohen, A Paladino
Emily Slusser
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A Picture Of Eight Turtles: The Child’S Understanding Of Cardinality And Numerosity, Emily Slusser, B Sarnecka
A Picture Of Eight Turtles: The Child’S Understanding Of Cardinality And Numerosity, Emily Slusser, B Sarnecka
Emily Slusser
An essential part of understanding number words (e.g., eight) is understanding that all number words refer to the dimension of experience we call numerosity. Knowledge of this general principle may be separable from knowledge of individual number word meanings. That is, children may learn the meanings of at least a few individual number words before realizing that all number words refer to numerosity. Alternatively, knowledge of this general principle may form relatively early and proceed to guide and constrain the acquisition of individual number word meanings. The current article describes two experiments in which 116 children (2½- to 4-year-olds) were …