Are number gestures easier than number words for preschoolers?
Are number gestures easier than number words for preschoolers?
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DOI：
10.1016/j.cogdev.2010.04.001
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发表时间：
2010-07-01
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1.8
通讯作者：
Marentette, Paula
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作者：
Nicoladis, Elena;Pika, Simone;Marentette, Paula
一些研究人员认为，儿童最早的符号是基于他们的感觉运动经验，任意的符号参照映射对他们构成了挑战。如果是这样，接触标志性符号（比如一个手指对应一个物体的手势）可能会对孩子在数字等困难领域有所帮助。我们在两个任务中评估了44名学龄前儿童对数字手势和数字单词的处理：给出一个数字和多少。儿童在将数字单词映射到许多玩具上时通常比数字手势更准确，这表明数字手势的象似性并不能帮助儿童将符号映射到数字上。我们认为，儿童学习数字手势作为任意符号，并没有利用他们的象似性。(C) 2010爱思唯尔公司版权所有。
Some researchers have argued that children's earliest symbols are based on their sensorimotor experience and that arbitrary symbol-referent mapping poses a challenge for them. If so, exposure to iconic symbols (such as one-finger-for-one-object manual gestures) might help children in a difficult domain such as number. We assessed 44 preschoolers' processing of number gestures and number words on two tasks: give-a-number and how-many. Children were generally more accurate when mapping number words than number gestures onto a number of toys, suggesting that the iconicity of number gestures does not help children map symbols to numbers. We argue that children learn number gestures as arbitrary symbols and do not take advantage of their iconicity. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.