Grammatical morphology as a source of early number word meanings
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Grammatical morphology as a source of early number word meanings.
How does cross-linguistic variation in linguistic structure affect children's acquisition of early number word meanings? We tested this question by investigating number word learning in two unrelated languages that feature a tripartite singular-dual-plural distinction: Slovenian and Saudi Arabic. We found that learning dual morphology affects children's acquisition of the number word two in bot...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1313652110