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Is thirty-two three tens and two ones? The embedded structure of cardinal numbers

2019-09-20

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<p>The acquisition and representation of natural numbers have been a central topic in cognitive science. However, a key question in this topic about how humans acquire the capacity to understand that numbers make ‘infinite use of finite means’ (or that numbers are generative) has been left unanswered. Here, we test the hypothesis that children’s understanding of the syntactic rules for building complex numerals—or...

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Literature Corpus work: 37d0b0e9-c3a5-5222-9aec-111714715584
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/vtk5w

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