Sex differences in intrinsic aptitude for mathematics and science?: a critical review.

ES Spelke - American psychologist, 2005 - psycnet.apa.org
This article considers 3 claims that cognitive sex differences account for the differential
representation of men and women in high-level careers in mathematics and science:(a) …

Developmental sociolinguistics: Children's acquisition of language variation

EK Johnson, KS White - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Developmental sociolinguistics is a rapidly evolving interdisciplinary framework that builds
upon theoretical and methodological contributions from multiple disciplines (ie …

One, two, three, four, nothing more: An investigation of the conceptual sources of the verbal counting principles

M Le Corre, S Carey - Cognition, 2007 - Elsevier
Since the publication of [Gelman, R., & Gallistel, CR (1978). The child's understanding of
number. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.] seminal work on the development of …

Young children learning Spanish make rapid use of grammatical gender in spoken word recognition

C Lew-Williams, A Fernald - Psychological science, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
All nouns in Spanish have grammatical gender, with obligatory gender marking on
preceding articles (eg, la and el, the feminine and masculine forms of “the,” respectively) …

Bootstrapping in a language of thought: A formal model of numerical concept learning

ST Piantadosi, JB Tenenbaum, ND Goodman - Cognition, 2012 - Elsevier
In acquiring number words, children exhibit a qualitative leap in which they transition from
understanding a few number words, to possessing a rich system of interrelated numerical …

Twenty-five years using the intermodal preferential looking paradigm to study language acquisition: What have we learned?

RM Golinkoff, W Ma, L Song… - Perspectives on …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
The intermodal preferential looking paradigm (IPLP) has proven to be a revolutionary
method for the examination of infants' emerging language knowledge. In the IPLP, infants' …

From grammatical number to exact numbers: Early meanings of 'one','two', and 'three'in English, Russian, and Japanese

BW Sarnecka, VG Kamenskaya, Y Yamana, T Ogura… - Cognitive …, 2007 - Elsevier
This study examined whether singular/plural marking in a language helps children learn the
meanings of the words 'one,''two,'and 'three.'First, CHILDES data in English, Russian (which …

Finding one's meaning: A test of the relation between quantifiers and integers in language development

D Barner, K Chow, SJ Yang - Cognitive psychology, 2009 - Elsevier
We explored children's early interpretation of numerals and linguistic number marking, in
order to test the hypothesis (eg, Carey (2004). Bootstrapping and the origin of concepts …

The semantics and pragmatics of plurals

H de Swart, D Farkas - Semantics and pragmatics, 2010 - semprag.org
This paper addresses the semantics and pragmatics of singular and plural nominals in
languages that manifest a binary morphological number distinction within this category. We …

Number-neutral bare plurals and the multiplicity implicature

E Zweig - Linguistics and philosophy, 2009 - Springer
Bare plurals (dogs) behave in ways that quantified plurals (some dogs) do not. For instance,
while the sentence John owns dogs implies that John owns more than one dog, its negation …