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Numbers, language, and the human mind /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Numbers, language, and the human mind // Heike Wiese.
remainder title:	Numbers, Language, & the Human Mind
Author:	Wiese, Heike,
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 346 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Grammar, Comparative and general - Numerals. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511486562
ISBN:	9780511486562 (ebook)

Numbers, language, and the human mind /
Wiese, Heike,

Numbers, language, and the human mind /Numbers, Language, & the Human MindHeike Wiese. - 1 online resource (xi, 346 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Numbers and objects -- What does it mean to be a number? -- Can words be numbers? -- The language legacy -- Children's route to number: from iconic representations to numerical thinking -- The organisation of our cognitive number domain -- Non-verbal number systems -- Numbers in language: the grammatical integration of numerical tools.

What constitutes our number concept? What makes it possible for us to employ numbers the way we do; which mental faculties contribute to our grasp of numbers? What do we share with other species, and what is specific to humans? How does our language faculty come into the picture? This 2003 book addresses these questions and discusses the relationship between numerical thinking and the human language faculty, providing psychological, linguistic and philosophical perspectives on number, its evolution and its development in children. Heike Wiese argues that language as a human faculty plays a crucial role in the emergence of systematic numerical thinking. She characterises number sequences as powerful and highly flexible mental tools that are unique to humans and shows that it is language that enables us to go beyond the perception of numerosity and to develop such mental tools.

ISBN: 9780511486562 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

1443196
Grammar, Comparative and general
--Numerals.

LC Class. No.: P275 / .W54 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 401/.9

Numbers, language, and the human mind /
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