ABSTRACT This work investigates whether reference in speech to certain quantities, namely 1, 2, and 3, is privileged linguistically due to our brain’s native quantitative capacities. It is suggested that these small quantities are not privileged in specific ways suggested in the literature. The case that morphology privileges these quantities, apart from 1, is difficult to maintain in light of the cross-linguistic data surveyed. The grammatical expression of 2 is explained without appealing to innate quantitative reasoning and the grammatical expression of 3 is not truly characteristic of speech once language relatedness is considered. The case that 1, 2, and 3 are each privileged lexically is also difficult to maintain in the face of the global linguistic data. While native neurobiological architecture biases humans towards recognizing small quantities in precise ways, these biases do not yield clear patterns in numerical language worldwide.

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本土定量思维是否以语言特权的方式具体化？全球图景

摘要 这项工作调查了语音中对特定数量（即 1、2 和 3）的引用是否由于我们大脑的本机定量能力而在语言上享有特权。建议这些少量没有以文献中建议的特定方式享有特权。根据所调查的跨语言数据，除了 1 之外，形态优先于这些数量的情况很难维持。解释 2 的语法表达没有诉诸先天的定量推理，一旦考虑语言相关性，3 的语法表达就不是真正的语音特征。1、2、3 分别在词法上享有特权的情况在全球语言数据面前也难以维持。