Are Chinese and German children taxonomic, thematic or shape biased?: Influence of classifiers and cultural contexts <br /> <br />

Are Chinese and German children taxonomic, thematic or shape biased?: Influence of classifiers and cultural contexts <br /> <br />

This paper explores the effect of classifiers on young children’s conceptual structures. For this purpose we studied Mandarin Chinese- and German-speaking three- and five-year-olds on non-lexical classification, novel-noun label extension and inductive inference of novel properties. Some effect of t...

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Main Authors: Mutsumi eImai, Henrik eSaalbach, Elsbeth eStern
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2010-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
Categorization
word learning
cognitive development
cultural psychology
Inductive reasoning
Linguistic relativity
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00194/full

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