TY - BOOK AU - Mendes de Carvalho Alt,Ágata AU - Tartas,Valérie TI - The Achieving of Semiotic Systems in order to Representing or Telling Time from 3 to 10 Years Old Children PY - 2016///. N1 - 47 N2 - Time is a social and cultural construction mediated by different external semiotic tools (calendars, timetables, etc.). This research aims at studying how children were grasping upon external representational systems to solving a duration communicative problem – a temporal riddle. Seventy-eight children (26 children from 3-4 years old, 26 children from 7-8 years old and 26 children from 10-11 years old) were allocated into a same gender dyad. In each dyad, a child was invited to use notations in order to make her/his partner guessed duration clues. The main results revealed that 3-4 years old children were not able to use graphical notations as tools to communicate last information, whereas 7-8 years old children used graphical notations supported by oral language to product the support on which their partner rely to solve the duration riddle. Specifically, the 10-11 years old children used graphical notations as psychological tools both to represent and communicate their partner temporal information. These results are discussed from a sociocultural perspective UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-bulletin-de-psychologie-2015-6-page-441?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -