Iconic and non-iconic stages in number development : the role of language
- Is language the key to number? This article argues that the human language faculty provides the cognitive equipment that enables humans to develop a systematic number concept. Crucially, this concept is based on non-iconic representations that involve relations between relations: relations between numbers are linked with relations between objects. In contrast to this, language-independent numerosity concepts provide only iconic representations. The pattern of forming relations between relations lies at the heart of our language faculty, suggesting that it is language that enables humans to make the step from these iconic representations, which we share with other species, to a generalised concept of number.
| Verfasserangaben: | Heike WieseORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1150599 |
| URL: | http://www.uni-potsdam.de/fileadmin/projects/germanistik-07/Publikationen/HWTrends.pdf |
| Titel des übergeordneten Werkes (Deutsch): | Trends in cognitive sciences |
| Dokumentart: | Preprint |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Datum der Veröffentlichung (online): | 26.04.2010 |
| Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung: | 2003 |
| Veröffentlichende Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Datum der Freischaltung: | 26.04.2010 |
| GND-Schlagwort: | Kognitionswissenschaft; Zahlbegriff; Ikon |
| Jahrgang: | 7.2003 |
| Ausgabe / Heft: | 9 |
| Erste Seite: | 385 |
| Letzte Seite: | 390 |
| Quelle: | http://www.uni-potsdam.de/fileadmin/projects/germanistik-07/Publikationen/HWTrends.pdf ; (in:) Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 9, 2003, S. 385-390 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 225409658 |
| DDC-Klassifikation: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Psycholinguistik/Kognitive Linguistik / Psycholinguistics/Cognitive linguistics |
| Lizenz (Deutsch): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
