Whereas it is a well-established fact that young children can perform intuitive addition and subtraction, it is an open question whether they are capable of multiplicative operations on sets before receiving formal training. Earlier studies devoted to the study of intuitive arithmetic sought for evidence of intuitive multiplication in children’s ability to distinguish proportional relations between quantities and numerosities. This paper claims that multiplication operations are present in children’s everyday communication, in their understanding and producing sentences with two numerical quantifiers and a distributivity marker such as the Hungarian Mindharom gyerek ket autoval jatszik ’Every one of three kids is playing with two cars’, and Harom gyerek ket-ket autoval jatszik ’Three kids are playing with two cars apiece’. The paper gives account of an experiment testing how 5–7-year-old Hungarian children with no training in arithmetic operations interpret such sentences. The experiment shows that they h...

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语言乘法

众所周知，幼儿可以进行直观的加法和减法，但是在接受正式培训之前，他们是否有能力在场景上进行乘法运算是一个悬而未决的问题。较早的致力于直觉算术研究的研究试图寻找直觉乘法的证据，以证明儿童能够区分数量和数量之间的比例关系。本文声称乘法运算存在于儿童的日常交流中，他们在理解和产生带有两个数字量词和一个分布标记的句子时，例如匈牙利语Mindharom gyerek ket autoval jatszik，“三个孩子中的每个孩子都在玩两辆车”，以及Harom gyerek ket-ket autoval jatszik“三个孩子一个人玩两辆车”。本文介绍了一个实验，该实验测试了未经算术训练的5-7岁匈牙利儿童如何解读此类句子。实验表明他们...