Numbers, Language, and the Human Mind

Informationen zum Autor Heike Weiss is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the Institute for German Linguistics and Language, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She has published in the fields of linguistics, cognitive science, philosophy, and didactics of mathematics. Klappentext Discusses the relationship between numerical thinking and the human language faculty. Zusammenfassung This 2003 book 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Numbers and objects; 2. What does it mean to be a number?; 3. Can words be numbers?; 4. The language legacy; 5. Children's route to number: from iconic representations to numerical thinking; 6. The organisation of our cognitive number domain; 7. Non-verbal number systems; 8. Numbers in language: the grammatical integration of numerical tools; Appendix.

Product details

• Authors: Heike Wiese
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.04.2009
• EAN: 9780521108652
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10865-2
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book