A performed practice explains a linguistic universal: Counting gives the Packing Strategy

Lingua

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 773-783

  Hurford, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Counting; Grammar; Numerals; Packing Strategy; Performance; Universals

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846299255     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2006.03.002     Document Type: Article

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