Number Concepts without Number Lines in an Indigenous Group of Papua New Guinea

Rafael Núñez; Kensy Cooperrider; Jürg Wassmann

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0035662

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Number Concepts without Number Lines in an Indigenous Group of Papua New Guinea

Rafael Núñez ,

* E-mail: nunez@cogsci.ucsd.edu

Affiliation Department of Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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Kensy Cooperrider,

Affiliation Department of Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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Jürg Wassmann

Affiliation Institut für Ethnologie, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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Number Concepts without Number Lines in an Indigenous Group of Papua New Guinea

Rafael Núñez,
Kensy Cooperrider,
Jürg Wassmann

Published: April 25, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0035662

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