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Language transparency significantly impacts children's early numerical development. The structure of a language's number words, like inversions (e.g., "four and twenty"), affects how children process numbers, influencing both verbal and non-verbal tasks.

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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Linguistics

Background:

  • Children's numerical development involves mastering the Arabic number system and place-value concepts.
  • Language plays a crucial role in acquiring numerical understanding, particularly the structure of number words.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review and discuss evidence on how language transparency influences the acquisition of digital-Arabic number structures.
  • To investigate the impact of specific linguistic features, like number word inversions, on children's numerical processing.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review synthesizing existing research on language influences in numerical development.
  • Analysis of studies examining the effects of number word transparency and inversion properties on children's performance in numerical tasks.

Main Results:

  • The transparency of a language's number word system moderates the acquisition of Arabic number structures.
  • Number word inversions (e.g., "four and twenty") significantly impact children's verbal and non-verbal numerical processing.
  • Language-specific influences are most pronounced for multi-digit numbers, with German-speaking children showing more inversion-related interference than Italian-speaking children.

Conclusions:

  • Numerical development is not strictly language-specific but is significantly moderated by linguistic factors.
  • Difficulties related to number word inversions may have longitudinal effects on numerical processing abilities.
  • Cross-linguistic comparisons highlight the substantial impact of language structure on cognitive number processing.