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To what extent does the acquisition of conceptual categories depend on language?

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Natural language quantifiers like ‘all’, ‘none’, ‘most’ and ‘some’ can be analysed in terms of set-theory to provide language-independent definitions. This analysis can be used to derive predictions about processing and acquisition. In this talk I will present findings from a crosslinguistic study on the acquisition of these quantifiers by monolingual children speaking one of 24 languages, as well as bilingual children and children with Specific Language Impairment. The findings reveal a universal pattern in the order of acquisition as predicted by the logical analysis. This pattern is modulated by specific syntactic and lexical features of the language being acquired. I will conclude with a discussion on the implications about the relation between linguistic and non-linguistic (esp. mathematical)cognition.

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