What time words teach us about children's acquisition of the temporal reasoning system.
Katharine A TillmanPublished in: The Behavioral and brain sciences (2019)
Here I consider the possible role of the temporal updating system in the development of the temporal reasoning system. Using evidence from children's acquisition of time words, I argue that abstract temporal concepts are not built from primitive representations of time. Instead, I propose that language and cultural learning provide the primary sources of the temporal reasoning system.