语言和数值概念的起源
1Psychology and Cognitive Science, Rutgers University, 152 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854. USA. rgelman@ruccs.rutgers.edu
Science (New York, N.Y.)
|October 16, 2004
概括
人类与动物共享一种基本的,语言独立的数字感. 该研究探讨了计数语言如何影响数值认知和沃尔夫假设.
科学领域:
- 认知科学 认知科学
- 语言学的语言学.
- 人类学是人类学.
背景情况:
- 与亚马逊土著群体 (Pirahã和Mundurukú) 进行的研究研究了数字认知.
- 探索语言,数字概念和认知能力之间的关系.
- 探讨了数字表示在人类的起源.
研究的目的:
- 研究语言在数值概念的发展中的作用.
- 确定人类是否存在语言独立的数值表示.
- 评价关于语言对思想的影响的沃尔芬假设.
主要方法:
- 与土著人口进行跨文化认知研究.
- 具有和没有广泛的计数系统的语言使用者的数值能力的比较分析.
- 综述理论框架,包括语言决定主义和弱沃尔夫假设.
主要成果:
- 人类拥有语言独立的数值表示,类似于非语言动物.
- 这种天生的表示表现出有限的精度和尺度不变性.
- 计数系统的范围影响,但不仅仅决定了数字认知.
结论:
- 语言,特别是数字的词汇,塑造了形状,但并没有决定数字思想.
- 支持对沃尔夫假设的细微观点,即语言影响认知.
- 这表明先天的数值能力和语言结构之间存在着复杂的相互作用.
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