The co-evolution of number concepts and counting words

Lingua

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 758-772

  Wiese, Heike ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardinality; Evolution of counting sequence; Language number relationship; Number concept; Semantics of numerals

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846280920     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2006.03.001     Document Type: Article

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