ERIC Number: EJ1031105
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Publication Date: 2014-Jul
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Children's Learning of Number Words in an Indigenous Farming-Foraging Group
Piantadosi, Steven T.; Jara-Ettinger, Julian; Gibson, Edward
Developmental Science, v17 n4 p553-563 Jul 2014
We show that children in the Tsimane', a farming-foraging group in the Bolivian rain-forest, learn number words along a similar developmental trajectory to children from industrialized countries. Tsimane' children successively acquire the first three or four number words before fully learning how counting works. However, their learning is substantially delayed relative to children from the United States, Russia, and Japan. The presence of a similar developmental trajectory likely indicates that the incremental stages of numerical knowledge--but not their timing--reflect a fundamental property of number concept acquisition which is relatively independent of language, culture, age, and early education.
Descriptors: Numbers, Number Concepts, Young Children, Child Development, Foreign Countries, Vocabulary, Computation, Developmental Stages, Knowledge Level, Indigenous Populations, Agricultural Occupations
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Bolivia
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