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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Linguistics
  • Mathematics Education

Background:

  • Multiplication fact retrieval is influenced by language, particularly number word inversion (e.g., German 'dreiundzwanzig' for 23).
  • Prior research explored linguistic influences on multiplication in adults.
  • The impact of number word inversion on children's place-value processing in multiplication remains less understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the effects of linguistic number word inversion on place-value processing during multiplication in children.
  • To compare multiplication fact retrieval strategies between German- and Italian-speaking elementary school children.

Main Methods:

  • A choice task involving 46 German- and Italian-speaking children solving multiplication problems.
  • Analysis of decade-consistency and table-relatedness effects on multiplication performance.
  • Comparison of performance patterns between the two language groups.

Main Results:

  • Established effects like decade-consistency and table-relatedness were observed in children.
  • The effect of table-relatedness was significantly larger for decade-consistent items in Italian-speaking children compared to German-speaking children.
  • German-speaking children showed less emphasis on the tens digit in multiplication compared to Italian-speaking children.

Conclusions:

  • Language-specific number word inversion influences children's multiplication fact retrieval and place-value processing.
  • The German linguistic structure, with its inversion property, appears to reduce the salience of the tens digit for German-speaking children.
  • Findings highlight the crucial role of language in the development of mathematical cognition.