Andrea Taverna
Biographic Data
| ID | 6773193 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea Taverna |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea |
| FAMILY NAME | Taverna |
| SIGNATURE | TAVERNA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9394-9642 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reframing picture book design for early mathematics
This article presents a research-based design model for culturally grounded mathematics resources, developed through the creation of two number picture books in collaboration with a Wichi Indigenous community from the Argentine Gran Chaco region. The model integrates three complementary dimensions: (a) a cognitive-cultural framework that views learning and development as emerging from the dynamic relationships among culture, cognition, and langua…
How pervasive is joint attention? Mother‐child dyads from a Wichi community reveal a different form of “togetherness”
Native Ontological Framework Guides Causal Reasoning
Causal cognition – how we perceive, represent and reason about causal events – are fundamental to the human mind, but it has rarely been approached in its cultural specificity. Here, we investigate this core concept among Wichi people, an indigenous group living in Chaco Forest. We focus on the Wichi, because their epistemological orientations and explanatory frameworks about ecosystem differ importantly from those documented among most Western m…
Collaborative pedagogy
Motherese in the Wichi Language ( El maternés en la lengua wichí )
This paper provides the first evidence of maternal speech — motherese — in Wichi, an indigenous language with a complex morphology spoken in the Gran Chaco region of Argentina. The corpus consists of 22 hours of video recordings from the daily life of three children, starting from their one-morpheme utterance period (MLU = 1) to the onset of combining early morphemes (MLU = 2.30). Employing a mixed methodological approach, results allowed us: (a)…
Tracing culture in children’s thinking
There is considerable agreement that cognitive development is shaped by culture. Less clear, however, is the mechanism by which culture exerts its influence as cognition unfolds. Prior work has primarily focused on culture as a species-specific medium of cognitive development or as an explicative factor of cognitive capacities. Here we describe a more recent alternative, the culture-as-ecosystem approach. In this view, concepts are embedded withi…
Early lexical acquisition in the Wichi language
This research brings new evidence on early lexical acquisition in Wichi, an under-studied indigenous language in which verbs occupy a privileged position in the input and in conjunction with nouns are characterized by a complex and rich morphology. Focusing on infants ranging from one- to three-year-olds, we analyzed the parental report of infants’ vocabulary (Study 1) and naturalistic speech samples of children and their caregivers (Study 2). Re…
Naming the Living Things
This work focuses on the underlying conceptual structure of children’s category of living things from a cross-cultural, cross-linguistic perspective. School-aged children ( n = 129) from three Argentinean communities (rural Wichí-speaking, rural Spanish-speaking, urban Spanish-speaking) were asked to generate the names of living things. Analyses were focused on the typicality, semantic organization, and hierarchical level of the names mentioned. …
Core Folkbiological Concepts
We examine two core folk-biological concepts (e.g., animate, living thing, where small capital letters denote concepts; quotation marks denote their names; italics denote languagespecific names) in adults and children from the Wich community, an indigenous group of Amerindians living in the Chaco forest in north Argentina. We provide an overview of the Wich community, describing in brief their interaction with objects and events in the natural wo…
Core Folkbiological Concepts
We examine two core folk-biological concepts (e.g., animate, living thing, where small capital letters denote concepts; quotation marks denote their names; italics denote languagespecific names) in adults and children from the Wich community, an indigenous group of Amerindians living in the Chaco forest in north Argentina. We provide an overview of the Wich community, describing in brief their interaction with objects and events in the natural wo…
Core Folkbiological Concepts
We examine two core folk-biological concepts (e.g., animate, living thing, where small capital letters denote concepts; quotation marks denote their names; italics denote languagespecific names) in adults and children from the Wich community, an indigenous group of Amerindians living in the Chaco forest in north Argentina. We provide an overview of the Wich community, describing in brief their interaction with objects and events in the natural wo…
Naming the Living Things
This work focuses on the underlying conceptual structure of children’s category of living things from a cross-cultural, cross-linguistic perspective. School-aged children ( n = 129) from three Argentinean communities (rural Wichí-speaking, rural Spanish-speaking, urban Spanish-speaking) were asked to generate the names of living things. Analyses were focused on the typicality, semantic organization, and hierarchical level of the names mentioned. …
Tracing culture in children’s thinking
There is considerable agreement that cognitive development is shaped by culture. Less clear, however, is the mechanism by which culture exerts its influence as cognition unfolds. Prior work has primarily focused on culture as a species-specific medium of cognitive development or as an explicative factor of cognitive capacities. Here we describe a more recent alternative, the culture-as-ecosystem approach. In this view, concepts are embedded withi…
Early lexical acquisition in the Wichi language
This research brings new evidence on early lexical acquisition in Wichi, an under-studied indigenous language in which verbs occupy a privileged position in the input and in conjunction with nouns are characterized by a complex and rich morphology. Focusing on infants ranging from one- to three-year-olds, we analyzed the parental report of infants’ vocabulary (Study 1) and naturalistic speech samples of children and their caregivers (Study 2). Re…
Collaborative pedagogy
Motherese in the Wichi Language ( El maternés en la lengua wichí )
This paper provides the first evidence of maternal speech — motherese — in Wichi, an indigenous language with a complex morphology spoken in the Gran Chaco region of Argentina. The corpus consists of 22 hours of video recordings from the daily life of three children, starting from their one-morpheme utterance period (MLU = 1) to the onset of combining early morphemes (MLU = 2.30). Employing a mixed methodological approach, results allowed us: (a)…
Native Ontological Framework Guides Causal Reasoning
Causal cognition – how we perceive, represent and reason about causal events – are fundamental to the human mind, but it has rarely been approached in its cultural specificity. Here, we investigate this core concept among Wichi people, an indigenous group living in Chaco Forest. We focus on the Wichi, because their epistemological orientations and explanatory frameworks about ecosystem differ importantly from those documented among most Western m…
How pervasive is joint attention? Mother‐child dyads from a Wichi community reveal a different form of “togetherness”
Reframing picture book design for early mathematics
This article presents a research-based design model for culturally grounded mathematics resources, developed through the creation of two number picture books in collaboration with a Wichi Indigenous community from the Argentine Gran Chaco region. The model integrates three complementary dimensions: (a) a cognitive-cultural framework that views learning and development as emerging from the dynamic relationships among culture, cognition, and langua…
Psychology (7 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Indigenous (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Language and cultural evolution (3 works) · Language Development and Disorders (3 works)