Psych 1306 Language and Thought

More Numbers

MundurukuResearch Link

http://www.unicog.org/main/pages.php?page=Numbers

Explanation of the videos:http://

www.unicog.org/docs/MovieDocumentationCountingInMunduruku.htm

Video #1 (Count list)http://

video.rap.prd.fr/cnrs/grci/MundurukuFingerCounting.ram

Video #2 (Counting Seeds)http://video.rap.prd.fr/cnrs/grci/MundurukuSeedCou

nting.ram

PirahãDan Everett

http://www.llc.ilstu.edu/dlevere/http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=v7Spzjh9QgA

Getting there & Village lifehttp://

faculty.tc.columbia.edu/upload/pg328/River-Vlg1.avi

http://www.llc.ilstu.edu/dlevere/Piraha/MVI_0255.AVI

Gordon (2004)Counting

http://faculty.tc.columbia.edu/upload/pg328/Counting.avi

Knocking Imitationhttp://

faculty.tc.columbia.edu/upload/pg328/knocking.avi

Frank et al. (2008)Video #1 (Success)

http://tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_website/videos/p-num-success.mov

Video #2 (Failure)http://

tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_website/videos/p-num-failure.mov

Puppet & Tree

Puppet & Tree

1. “go to sleep”2. “wake up” & return to branches

Search time when empty vs. when not empty

VARIANTS: - one puppet went to the bathroom (or went to the jungle) + one puppet added +/- branch (storm)

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CardinalNumber.html

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PeanosAxioms.html