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Spelke, Elizabeth S. – Language Learning and Development, 2017
The natural numbers may be our simplest, most useful, and best-studied abstract concepts, but their origins are debated. I consider this debate in the context of the proposal, by Gallistel and Gelman, that natural number system is a product of cognitive evolution and the proposal, by Carey, that it is a product of human cultural history. I offer a…
Descriptors: Computation, Number Systems, Number Concepts, Language Usage
Barner, David – Language Learning and Development, 2012
How do children learn the meanings of number words like "one," "two," and "three"? Whereas many words that children learn in early acquisition denote individual things and their properties (e.g., cats, colors, shapes), numerals, like quantifiers, denote the properties of sets. Unlike quantifiers such as "several" and "many," numerals denote…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Number Concepts, Nouns, Inferences