Number as a cognitive technology: Evidence from Pirahã language and cognition

Michael C. Frank, Daniel L. Everett, Evelina Fedorenko, Edward Gibson

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Publication Date: 2008-06-11

Citations: 436

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2008.04.007

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