When Days Are Numbered: Calendar Structure and the Development of Calendar Processing in English and Chinese

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 289-314

  Kelly, Melissa K ^a   Miller, Kevin F ^a   Fang, Ge ^b   Feng, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Calendar processing; Cross cultural research; Language and cognition; Symbolic development

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINA; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME PERCEPTION;

CHILD; CHINA; COGNITION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MATHEMATICS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033173609     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jecp.1999.2503     Document Type: Article

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