CROSS-LINGUISTIC REGULARITIES IN THE FREQUENCY OF NUMBER WORDS
CROSS-LINGUISTIC REGULARITIES IN THE FREQUENCY OF NUMBER WORDS
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DOI：
10.1016/0010-0277(92)90030-l
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发表时间：
1992-04-01
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影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
MEHLER, J
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作者：
DEHAENE, S;MEHLER, J
我们研究了数字和序数在七种不同语言和/或文化中的频率。 许多跨文化和跨语言的模式被确定。 最引人注目的是频率随数值大小而降低，其中对于参考数字例如10、12、15、20、50或100局部增加。 四种解释被认为是这种效果：采样文物，记法，环境偏见和心理限制的数字表征。 心理学的解释，呼吁一个费希纳编码的数值大小和存在的数字参考点，占大多数的数据。 我们的发现也有实际意义，因为它揭示了两个实验变量的频繁混淆：数值幅度和数字频率。
We examine the frequency of numerals and ordinals in seven different languages and/or cultures. Many cross-cultural and cross-linguistic patterns are identified. The most striking is a decrease of frequency with numerical magnitude, with local increases for reference numerals such as 10, 12, 15, 20, 50 or 100. Four explanations are considered for this effect: sampling artifacts, notational regularities, environmental biases and psychological limitations on number representations. The psychological explanation, which appeals to a Fechnerian encoding of numerical magnitudes and to the existence of numerical points of reference, accounts for most of the data. Our finding also has practical importance since it reveals the frequent confound of two experimental variables: numerical magnitude and numeral frequency.