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Are Chinese and German Children Taxonomic, Thematic, or Shape Biased? Influence of Classifiers and Cultural Contexts

This paper explores the effect of classifiers on young children's conceptual structures. For this purpose we studied Mandarin Chinese- and German-speaking 3- and 5-year-olds on non-lexical classification, novel-noun label extension, and inductive inference of novel properties. Some effect of th...

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Autores principales: Imai, Mutsumi, Saalbach, Henrik, Stern, Elsbeth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Research Foundation 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3153803/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21833253
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00194