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Congratulations<\/strong> to Professor Kristen Syrett on her recent publication examining how children interpret count nouns and evaluate quantity when presented with partial objects.<\/span><\/p>\n

The article investigates why children often \u201cover-count\u201d broken or partial objects, such as treating a broken fork piece as one whole fork, whereas adults categorize and count such objects more conservatively. The findings suggest that while children are more flexible in applying nouns to partial objects, their counting behavior reflects limitations in representing fractional quantities, leading them to default to a natural number scale rather than the finer-grained measurement scale adults use.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can read the publication on this interesting work <\/span>here!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to Professor Kristen Syrett on her recent publication examining how children interpret count nouns and evaluate quantity when presented with partial objects. 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