A phylogenetic analysis of numeral anchor choice in New Guinea and lowland South America [0.03%]
新几内亚和南美低地计数系统的谱系分析
Annemarie Verkerk,Elisa Castillo Atehortua,Christoph Rzymski
Annemarie Verkerk
Most of the world's languages have numeral systems with a decimal base, but in some areas, such systems are rare. This article focuses on languages with either restricted numeral systems or systems featuring compositional anchors that are n...
Jean-Charles Pelland
Jean-Charles Pelland
This paper situates bases within a larger family of compositional tools, using a novel conceptual framework centred on numbers used as counting units, which I label anchors. I motivate introducing this framework by showing that existing def...
Can preschoolers learn the syntax of number? Using rules to combine familiar and novel number words [0.03%]
学前儿童能学习数量的句法吗？使用规则来结合熟悉和新颖的数量词
Sebastian Holt,David Barner
Sebastian Holt
Although children can combine words to express meanings like 'red house' or 'two cats', they do not represent number words compositionally (e.g. 'twenty-six' as 6+20) until late in development. One reason for this might be that smaller numb...
Stephen Chrisomalis
Stephen Chrisomalis
The base concept in number systems is realized differently across multiple representational modalities-frameworks that incorporate sensory channel, medium of expression and semantic structures into integrated semiotic systems. Because these...
Jean-Charles Pelland
Jean-Charles Pelland
Karine Chemla
Karine Chemla
Ancient sources attest to the introduction of two families of numeration systems using place-value notations. In such systems, the base and its powers are always represented using position. The existence of a base of this kind is reflected ...
Jean-Charles Pelland,Simon J Greenhill,Mary Walworth et al.
Jean-Charles Pelland et al.
While numeration systems are found in almost every human society, they also vary strikingly around the globe. One important feature of many systems is being structured around a base. The presence, format and size of a base have implications...
What is the point of a base system? Denotation, computation and the non-integers [0.03%]
进制的本质是什么？符号、计算与非整数
Oisín Parkinson-Coombs,Rafael Núñez
Oisín Parkinson-Coombs
As researchers and as laypeople, we inhabit worlds replete with numerals, numerals structured by a base system. We rely on exponentiation and powers of the base to describe these systems. This research habit, along with our familiar experie...
Russell Barlow
Russell Barlow
This article details how the notion of the numeral base has been used by linguists, both in the description of individual languages and as a broader concept for comparing different linguistic numeral systems. Although common linguistic unde...
Ricard Solé,Christopher Kempes,Susan Stepney
Ricard Solé
The questions of how life forms, whether life is an inevitable outcome and how diverse its presentation could be remain some of the most profound in science. Investigations into the origin of life confront key issues such as uncovering key ...