Cognitive and communicative pressures in the emergence of grammatical structure: A closer look at whether number sense is encoded in privileged ways

Cogn Neuropsychol. 2020 Jul-Sep;37(5-6):355-358. doi: 10.1080/02643294.2020.1802241. Epub 2020 Aug 26.

Authors

Francesca Franzon¹, Chiara Zanini², Rosa Rugani^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Neuroscience Area, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy.
² Romanisches Seminar (RoSe), Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
³ Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
⁴ Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

PMID: 32845803
DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2020.1802241

No abstract available

Keywords: Core cognition; communicative efficiency; language universals; non-verbal numerical systems grammar; number morphology.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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MeSH terms

Cognition*
Communication
Humans
Language*