Doctoral Dissertation Research: The effect of naming systems on the acquisition of and reasoning about time concepts

博士论文研究：命名系统对时间概念获取和推理的影响

• 批准号: 1124006
• 负责人: Kamil Deen
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: University of Hawaii
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-15 至 2013-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1124006&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; effect; naming

This dissertation research investigates whether the use of numerical systems in time concept names affects how adults reason about time and how children acquire time concepts. For example, in Chinese, the word for Monday is literally "weekday one" and January is "month one" whereas English uses arbitrary names with planetary ("Sunday") or mythical origins ("Thursday"). Preliminary evidence shows that in a number of mathematical tasks, children who acquire such systems outperform children acquiring languages with arbitrary names for such time concepts.This research project will test whether a numerical naming system facilitates the child's acquisition of time sequences by comparing monolingual children acquiring Chinese (numerical day- and month-systems), English (non-numerical systems), Latvian (mixed), and Japanese (mixed). Latvian is categorized as mixed because it numerical names for days of the week, but arbitrary names for months.This research addresses a fundamental question about the relationship between language and cognition, namely whether the linguistic coding of a concept in different languages shapes the acquisition and subsequent use of that concept. The results could have profound implications for our understanding of mathematical and temporal reasoning. Given the importance of bilingual education and cross-cultural exchange with China, this research will provide useful insights that could be used to inform language language pedagogy.

本论文研究调查了时间概念名称中数字系统的使用是否会影响成年人如何推理时间以及儿童如何获得时间概念。 例如，在中文中，“星期一”一词字面意思是“工作日一”，一月是“第一个月”，而英语则使用具有行星（“星期日”）或神话起源（“星期四”）的任意名称。 初步证据表明，在许多数学任务中，习得此类系统的儿童比习得具有此类时间概念的任意名称的语言的儿童表现更好。该研究项目将通过比较习得中文（数字日和月系统）、英语（非数字系统）、拉脱维亚语（混合）和日语的单语儿童，测试数字命名系统是否有助于儿童习得时间序列。 （混合）。 拉脱维亚语被归类为混合语，因为它用数字表示一周中的几天，但用任意名称表示月份。这项研究解决了关于语言和认知之间关系的一个基本问题，即不同语言中概念的语言编码是否会影响该概念的习得和后续使用。结果可能对我们对数学和时间推理的理解产生深远的影响。鉴于双语教育和与中国跨文化交流的重要性，这项研究将为语言教学提供有用的见解。