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The use of number words in natural language obeys Weber's law
2019
Journal of Experimental Psychology
It has been suggested that the origins of number words can be traced back to an evolutionarily ancient approximate number system, which represents quantities on a compressed scale and complies with Weber's law. Here, we use a data-driven computational model, which learns to predict 1 event (a word in a text corpus) from associated events, to characterize verbal behavior relative to number words in natural language, without appeal to perception. We show that the way humans use number words in
doi:10.1037/xge0000715
pmid:31789571
fatcat:vzugy63j3ffwvhlrn2ykxxtepy