Finding one’s meaning: A test of the relation between quantifiers and integers in language development☆

2008/09/17 by David Barner, D BARNER, K CHOW +3 · 308 citations
Mathematics · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills #Computer science #Development (topology) #Linguistics #Mathematics #Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques #Meaning (existential) #Philosophy #Psychology #Reading and Literacy Development #Relation (database) #Test (biology)

paper · doi:10.1016/j.cogpsych.2008.07.001

published in Cognitive Psychology 58(2), 195-219 (Elsevier BV)

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