= Karen Wynn
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A <developmental psychologist> who studied children’s acquisition of number-word meanings. A seven-month <longitudinal study> compared what two- and three-year-olds could count with what quantities they understood particular words to denote. This distinction underlies <number-word knower level>: reciting a <counting> sequence need not mean understanding the quantities its words represent.<Children's acquisition of the number words and the counting system by Karen Wynn>[1992, longitudinal counting and number-word tasks]{ref}
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