The claim that crosslinguistic disparities foster differences in nonlinguistic thought, often
referred to as' linguistic relativity', has for some time been the subject of intense debate. For …

Number systems differ cross-culturally in characteristics like how high counting extends and
which number is used as a productive base. Some of this variability can be linked to the way …

A Grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus) had previously been taught to use English count words
(“one” through “sih”[six]) to label sets of one to six individual items (Pepperberg, 1994). He …

Predominant psychological theories of number acquisition posit that children acquire natural
number concepts as they acquire the successor principle, or the knowledge that every …

There are far more syntactically distinct languages than we might have thought; yet there are
far fewer than there might have been. Questions of Syntax collects sixteen papers authored …

The term 'numeral'is a familiar one. It gives the impression that one, two, three..., etc. form a
homogeneous class of elements. In this paper, I will try to show that numerals do not form a …

The mathematical competence of non-literate cultures expressed in the design of complex
sociological structures has been recognized since a path-breaking Appendix by the …

Tokens refer to ancient bead-sized, usually clay, usually simple-geometric artifacts with no
evident function other than counting. People produced tokens for five millennia across west …

This paper presents the results of two sentence-picture matching experiments investigating
how Hungarian preschoolers interpret doubly quantified sentences involving numerical …

France par la revue L'Homme, l'anthropologue brésilienne Aparecida Vilaça a choisi–selon
ses propres termes–«une entrée peu habituelle, à savoir les mathématiques». Comme l'a …