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Lipton, Jennifer S.; Spelke, Elizabeth S. – Cognition, 2006
Although children take over a year to learn the meanings of the first three number words, they eventually master the logic of counting and the meanings of all the words in their count list. Here, we ask whether children's knowledge applies to number words beyond those they have mastered: Does a child who can only count to 20 infer that number…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Numbers, Semantics, Emergent Literacy
Lipton, Jennifer S.; Spelke, Elizabeth S. – Child Development, 2005
Five-year-old children categorized as skilled versus unskilled counters were given verbal estimation and number word comprehension tasks with numerosities 20-120. Skilled counters showed a linear relation between number words and nonsymbolic numerosities. Unskilled counters showed the same linear relation for smaller numbers to which they could…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Numbers, Cognitive Mapping, Task Analysis
Lipton, Jennifer S.; Spelke, Elizabeth S. – Infancy, 2004
Six experiments investigated infants' sensitivity to numerosity in auditory sequences. In prior studies (Lipton & Spelke, 2003), 6-month-old infants discriminated sequences of 8 versus 16 but not 8 versus 12 sounds, and 9-month-old infants discriminated 8 versus 12 but not 8 versus 10 sounds, when the continuous variables of rate, sound duration,…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Numbers, Auditory Stimuli, Age Differences