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    "pk": 25591,
    "title": "Semantic Alignment of Fractions and Decimals with Discrete\nVersus Continuous Entities: A Cross-national Comparison",
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    "abstract": "Previous work has shown that adults in the United States\nselectively use fractions and decimals to model discrete and\ncontinuous entities, respectively. However, it is unclear whether\nthis apparent semantic alignment between the format of rational\nnumbers and quantitative ontology is specific to the American\neducation system, the English language, or measuring\nconventions (primarily imperial measures). Here we test\nwhether similar alignments hold for Korean college students\nwho differ from American students in educational background,\nlanguage, and measurement conventions. Across three\nexperiments, we found that the alignments found in the United\nStates were generally replicated in South Korea. Relative to\nAmericans, Korean students showed an overall bias towards\nusing continuous representations, perhaps related to their\nexclusive use of the metric measurement system and to\ndifferences in instructional practice identified in a textbook\nanalysis.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Cross-national comparison"
        },
        {
            "word": "semantic alignment"
        },
        {
            "word": "continuous and discrete quantities"
        },
        {
            "word": "fractions"
        },
        {
            "word": "decimals"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9ks2d0mv",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Hee",
            "middle_name": "Seung",
            "last_name": "Lee",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Yonsei University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Melissa",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "DeWolf",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Miriam",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Bassok",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Washington",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Keith",
            "middle_name": "J",
            "last_name": "Holyoak",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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