LINGUIST List 15.1855

Fri Jun 18 2004

Books: Psycholinguistics: Wiese

Editor for this issue: Neil Salmond <neillinguistlist.org>

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1. jreid, Numbers, Language, and the Human Mind: Wiese

Title: Numbers, Language, and the Human Mind
			
Publication Year: 2004
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press 
		http://www.cup.org
			
Book URL: http://www.cup.org/linguistics

Author: Heike Wiese, Humboldt University, Berlin 

Hardback: ISBN: 0521831822, Pages: 358, Price: U.S. $:75.00
 Comment: 79 figures/4 tables 


Abstract:
			
What constitutes our concept of numbers and makes it possible for us
to work with them the way we do? Which mental faculties contribute to
our grasp? What qualities do we share with other species, and which
ones are specific to us? This book addresses these questions to reveal
that language plays a crucial role in the development of systematic
number concepts. It analyzes the relationship between numerical
thinking and the human language faculty, providing psychological,
linguistic, and philosophical perspectives on numbers, their
evolution, and development in children.

Contents:
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. 			


Lingfield(s):	Cognitive Science 
		Psycholinguistics 	

Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)

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