Verbal counting and the timing of number acquisition in an indigenous Amazonian group.
Children in industrialized cultures typically succeed on Give-N, a test of counting ability, by age 4. On the other hand, counting appears to be learned much later in the Tsimane', an indigenous group in the Bolivian Amazon. This study tests three hypotheses for what may cause this difference i...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2022-01-01
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| Series: | PLoS ONE |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270739 |