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.

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Author:Heike WieseORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1150599
URL:http://www.uni-potsdam.de/fileadmin/projects/germanistik-07/Publikationen/HWTrends.pdf
Parent Title (German):Trends in cognitive sciences
Document Type:Preprint
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2010/04/26
Year of first Publication:2003
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2010/04/26
GND Keyword:Kognitionswissenschaft; Zahlbegriff; Ikon
Volume:7.2003
Issue:9
First Page:385
Last Page:390
Source: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
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Linguistik-Klassifikation:Linguistik-Klassifikation: Psycholinguistik/Kognitive Linguistik / Psycholinguistics/Cognitive linguistics
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht