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Linguistic influence on mathematical development is specific rather than pervasive: revisiting the Chinese number advantage in Chinese and English children
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The relative linguistic transparency of the Asian counting system has been used to explain Asian students' relative superiority in cross-cultural comparisons of mathematics achievement. To test the validity and extent of linguistic transparency in accounting for mathematical abilities, this study tested Chinese and British primary school children. Children in Hong Kong can learn mathematics using languages with both regular (Chinese) and irregular (English) counting systems, depending on thei...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
- Version:
- Publisher's Version
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- 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00203
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- Publisher:
- Frontiers Media Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Frontiers in psychology Journal website
- Volume:
- 6
- Publication date:
- 2016-03-16
- Acceptance date:
- 2015-02-09
- DOI:
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1664-1078
- Pubs id:
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pubs:615287
- URN:
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uri:c175081c-34d2-4310-bc9e-a0c59932d726
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uuid:c175081c-34d2-4310-bc9e-a0c59932d726
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- pubs:615287
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- Article number: 342
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- W. Mark et al
- Copyright date:
- 2016
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- Copyright 2015 Mark and Dowker. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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