Knowledge of number and knowledge of language: Number as a test case for the role of language in cognition

Philosophical Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 437-441

  De Cruz, Helen ^a   Pica, Pierre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Linguistic relativism; Natural language; Natural numbers; Number vocabulary; Numerical cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 51049118587     PISSN: 09515089     EISSN: 1465394X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09515080802284217     Document Type: Article

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