Verbal Counting and Spatial Strategies in Numerical Tasks: Evidence from Indigenous Australia
Verbal Counting and Spatial Strategies in Numerical Tasks: Evidence from Indigenous Australia
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数字任务中的言语计数和空间策略：来自澳大利亚土著的证据
DOI：
10.1080/09515080802284597
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发表时间：
2008
影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
R. Reeve
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作者：
B. Butterworth;R. Reeve
在本研究中，我们测试了那些文化中缺乏CWs和计数习惯的儿童是否会使用空间策略来支持列举任务。我们对来自澳大利亚两个原住民社区、母语和唯一语言为 Warlpiri 或 Anindilyakwa 的儿童进行了经典数字发展任务测试，并将测试结果与在英语环境中长大的儿童进行了比较。我们发现，说 Warlpiri 语和 Anindilyakwa 语的儿童与说英语的儿童表现相当。然而，在要求他们匹配显示物体数量的任务中，他们比讲英语的儿童更有可能重建目标物体的部分或全部空间布局。根据约翰-洛克（John Locke）对类似美洲语言使用者的解释，并与后来沃尔夫（Whorfian）的解释形成对比，我们认为CWs可能在战略上是有用的，但如果没有CWs，就会使用其他特定任务策略。
In this study, we test whether children whose culture lacks CWs and counting practices use a spatial strategy to support enumeration tasks. Children from two indigenous communities in Australia whose native and only language (Warlpiri or Anindilyakwa) lacked CWs and were tested on classical number development tasks, and the results were compared with those of children reared in an English-speaking environment. We found that Warlpiri- and Anindilyakwa-speaking children performed equivalently to their English-speaking counterparts. However, in tasks in which they were required to match the number of objects in a display, they were more likely to reconstruct part or all of the spatial arrangement of the target than were their English-speaking counterparts. Following John Locke's interpretation of users of similar American languages and in contrast with later Whorfian interpretations, we suggest that CWs may be strategically useful, but that in their absence, other task-specific strategies will be deployed.