Open AccessEditors' Introduction
Author(s) -
Susan Rothstein,
Jurģis Šķilters
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the baltic international yearbook of cognition, logic and communication
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1944-3676
DOI - 10.4148/1944-3676.1114
Subject(s) - individuation , grasp , selection (genetic algorithm) , cognition , linguistics , cognitive science , sociology , epistemology , computer science , psychology , philosophy , artificial intelligence , psychoanalysis , programming language , neuroscience
This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the 11th International Symposium on Cognition, Logic and Communication which took place in Riga, at the University of Latvia on December 10-11 2015. The choice of topic reflected a growing understanding in the community of linguists and cognitive scientists that fundamental grammatical features of language, in particular the mass/count distinction, use of number words, and plurality, reflect our grasp of non-linguistic numerical operations, in particular individuation and measurement