The Faculty of Language Integrates the Two Core Systems of Number
Only humans possess the faculty of language that allows an infinite array of hierarchically structured expressions (Hauser et al., 2002; Berwick and Chomsky, 2015). Similarly, humans have a capacity for infinite natural numbers, while all other species seem to lack such a capacity (Gelman and Gallis...
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Frontiers Research Foundation
2017
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/110094 |