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Kocab, Annemarie; Davidson, Kathryn; Snedeker, Jesse – Cognitive Science, 2022
Classical quantifiers (like "all," "some," and "none") express relationships between two sets, allowing us to make generalizations (like "no elephants fly"). Devices like these appear to be universal in human languages. Is the ubiquity of quantification due to a universal property of the human mind or is it…
Descriptors: Natural Language Processing, Form Classes (Languages), Cognitive Processes, Spanish
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Imai, Mutsumi; Mazuka, Reiko – Cognitive Science, 2007
Objects and substances bear fundamentally different ontologies. In this article, we examine the relations between language, the ontological distinction with respect to individuation, and the world. Specifically, in cross-linguistic developmental studies that follow Imai and Gentner (1997), we examine the question of whether language influences our…
Descriptors: Language Universals, Classification, Syntax, Nouns