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The Interaction of Language and Thought in Children's Language Acquisition: A Crosslinguistic Study.

Weist, Richard M.; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1997
Investigates the potential interaction of conceptual representations and linguistic systems during language acquisition. The study examined language-thought interactions in American, Finnish and Polish children, focusing on the conceptual and linguistic development of space and time. Findings reveal that spatial and temporal linguistic systems and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Context Effect