The importance of spatial language for early numerical development in preschool: Going beyond verbal number skills.

ABSTRACT: Recent evidence suggests that spatial language in preschool positively affects the development of verbal number skills, as indexed by aggregated performances on counting and number naming tasks. We firstly aimed to specify whether spatial language (the knowledge of locative prepositions) significantly relates to both of these measures. In addition, we assessed whether the predictive value of spatial language extends beyond verbal number skills to numerical subdomains without explicit verbal component, such as number writing, symbolic magnitude classifications, ordinal judgments and numerosity comparisons. To determine the unique contributions of spatial language to these numerical skills, we controlled in our regression analyses for intrinsic and extrinsic spatial abilities, phonological a

SUBMITTER: Georges C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10540965 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature