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Spatial and temporal systems in child language and thought: a cross-linguistic study

Richard M. Weist

SUNY College, Fredonia, New York

Marja Atanassova

University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Hanna Wysocka

Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland

Aleksandra Pawlak

International House, Poznan, Poland

This research was designed to evaluate the interaction of conceptual and linguistic factors during the acquisition of the spatial and temporal systems of Polish, English and Finnish from 3 to 6 years of age. In the conceptual-spatial task, children reconstructed a layout from a 180-degree change in perspective, and in the conceptual-temporal task they arranged three picture cards in a sequence while telling a story. In the linguistic domain, there were two comprehension tests and one production test containing spatial and temporal contrasts requiring either a single or multiple referent object(s)/event(s). The main effects (i.e., age, dimension, complexity) were always significant. There was clear evidence for a Language x Dimension interaction in the linguistic

First Language, Vol. 19, No. 57, 267-308 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/014272379901905701
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