A Cross-Cultural Study of Young Children's Understanding of Spatial Prepositions

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Bengali-, English and Hindi-speaking children aged 5 to 9 years were asked to place an object 'in front of or 'behind' a frontedor nonfronted-object. All children responded on the basis of an inherent object cue when the fronted-object was used. When a nonfronted-object was used all children treated it as if it was a fronted-object facing towards themselves. These results were compared with those of Hausa-speakers who also use the inherent object cue for fronted-objects but treat nonfronted-objects as if they are facing away from themselves.

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