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    "pk": 26518,
    "title": "A cross-linguistic investigation on the acquisition of complex numerals",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Complex numerals (e.g., four hundred) have a multiplicative\nstructure (four hundred = 4 x 100). This paper investigates\nwhether children are sensitive to the meaning of the\nmultiplicative structure. We designed a novel word learning\nparadigm and taught 4- to 6-year-old children the meaning of\na novel numeral phrase (e.g., ‘one gobi houses’ to mean a\ngroup of three houses). We then asked whether they could\ngeneralize it to a novel context (e.g., ‘two gobi butterflies’ to\nmean two groups of three). Experiment 1 showed that only\nEnglish-speaking children who received multiplier syntax\ntraining were able to generalize. Experiment 2 extended\nfindings from Experiment 1 to Cantonese-speaking children\nand found that they could also generalize a novel multiplier to\nnovel contexts. These results suggest that children as young\nas 4 can create a mapping between the structure of complex\nnumerals and a multiplicative meaning.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "complex numerals"
        },
        {
            "word": "digits"
        },
        {
            "word": "multipliers"
        },
        {
            "word": "Syntax"
        },
        {
            "word": "Semantics"
        },
        {
            "word": "preschoolers"
        },
        {
            "word": "cross-linguistic investigation"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5dr9j89d",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Pierina",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Cheung",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Wesleyan University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Meghan",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Dale",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Queen’s University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Mathieu",
            "middle_name": "Le",
            "last_name": "Corre",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2016-01-02T00:00:00+06:00",
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}